Packwood In Historic Call For Kamala Harris
[Written by Don Burgess]
Cheryl Packwood said participating in one of the most awe-inspiring events of her life was taking part in a Zoom call with 44,000 other Black women who are now mobilized to help Vice President Kamala Harris win the US presidential election. She said being a part of this historic call gave her “shivers.”
On Sunday, July 21, 2024, the “Win With Black Women” Zoom call featured prominent speakers such as political strategist Donna Brazile, activist LaTosha Brown, and Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley, Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, and Jasmine Crockett.
An impressive 44,000 women participated in the event in support of Vice President Kamala Harris. During the call, they successfully raised $1.5 million for her campaign, showcasing Black women leaders’ powerful unity and influence across various sectors.
Reverend Bernice King, the daughter of civil rights leader Rev Martin Luther King Jr. and CEO of The King Center, also participated and said that despite voting since she was 18, she had never publicly endorsed a candidate until now. During the call, she expressed her full support, saying, “I’m 100% in her corner.”
Ms Packwood said, “It was a revival,” and the experience was “amazing.”
She was invited to the link through two chat groups. One was from her Black female classmates from Bronx High School of Science; the other was created by herself and two others from Harvard Law School. They quickly brought in Michelle Ifill—a world-renowned DEI consultant—and it includes other luminaries like Areva Martin, a CNN commentator who has authored several books.
Ms. Packwood said she tried to join the Zoom call at 8:30 pm, but it was already at its 1,000-person capacity. She had a message to try again at 8:45pm, but it was still at capacity. Zoom was working to keep increasing capacity because of the event’s popularity.
“I got on when there was about 10,000 women and that was about 9:15,” Ms. Packwood said. “And the call went on to about 2am. The call was invigorating. It was charged. Sunday, for me, was this amazing day.”
Earlier Sunday, she was supposed to attend the fourth annual Harvard Law School Black Alumnae High Tea in New York. Before the Tea, Ms. Packwood participated in a luncheon with Ms. Martin, also held at the same venue where Ms. Martin was speaking.
Near 2pm, the news broke that President Biden was dropping out of the presidential race, and Ms. Ifill, who was moderating the panel discussion at the luncheon, called for a break.
Ms. Packwood said, “The atmosphere in the room went from ‘this is terrible’ and concern, to excitement and smiles that Kamala would be the nominee.”
She said the discussion for the Tea immediately changed to talk about Vice President Harris. “There was this energy. We can do this. She will inspire young women.
“Then, while we were having tea, the link to the Zoom call at 8:30pm went out.
“When I got on the call, and I saw the excitement, the energy, and the belief that we can really inspiring beyond anything that I’ve felt in so long.”
She said this 44,000-strong group of Black women came out of the Zoom call with, “We just not have to advocate for Kamala Harris, but also protect her because the language and the attacks that are going to come for her are just going to be terrible.”
Ms. Packwood said the attacks had already started. However, Vice President Harris was incredibly qualified and ready to be president of the United States.
She said it was fascinating to watch as donations to the Harris campaign kept rolling in throughout the call, reaching $600,000 in the first two hours before settling in at $1.5 million.
Ms Packwood added that during their call, it was reported that Black men would organize their own calls. Now, the Hispanics and Latinos will have their own call. This is inspiring and historic.
“To be a part of this historic call gave me shivers.
“We can get her to the White House.”
Did any one of those 44,000 black women ask Harris when she would pay reparations to the descendants of the 200+ slaves (according to her father) owned by an ancestor in Jamaica? Will she pardon all the black men and women she sent to prison? What about supporting the diversion of state & federal funds supporting low-income black families to fund food, housing, healthcare, education, etc., on track to reach an estimated 10 MILLION illegals invading the USA under her watch? What about supporting illegals to vote in elections and diluting the black vote? Those are just off the top of my head.
From another website:
Below are 17 examples of Harris’ far-left record:
1. Co-sponsored legislation to protect illegal immigrants from deportation
2. Backed Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All legislation
3. Backed banning private health insurance
4. Supported giving taxpayer-funded coverage to illegal immigrants
5. Supported banning fracking
6. Backed defunding the police
7. Compared ICE to the KKK
8. Wanted to ban plastic straws
9. Defended banning offshore drilling
10. Wanted to “undo” the Trump administration’s border security, taking 94 executive actions in their first 100 days to rescind nearly every Trump-era measure
11. Supported decriminalizing illegal border crossings
12. Said she wouldn’t “treat” illegal aliens as “criminals”
13. Called for “starting [ICE] from scratch”
14. Argued that temporarily closing the border violated federal law
15. Raised money for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a far-left organization that pays to bail out of jail violent criminals, including accused murderers and rapists.
16. Supported Los Angeles’s cuts to their police department
17. Called efforts to add more police to the streets “wrongheaded thinking”
None of those 17 examples reflect anything done by Kamala Harris as vice-president and some of them look to be taken from Fox News.
A person can and should develop during life. An opinion expressed as a college student or a young political candidate in a notoriously liberal state should not be held against a woman now in her 60s seeking election to a federal office.
You can try to white-wash all you want with your CNN talking points. They absolutely DO reflect her record as a politician and much of it DOES cover her time as VP. She was neither a “college student” not a “young politician” when much of this occured the last 4 years. She has been a disaster as California AG and Senator, a disaster as VP and would be a disaster as President… and I say this as a black woman myself. I hope Trump wipes the floor with her in November.
You go girl!
Thank you.
“CNN talking points”
I have no idea why you think I watch CNN. I do not, except maybe a few times each year.
You obviously have your issues with Kamala Harris and I obviously missed where the Vice President of the United States backed banning private health insurance, compared ICE with the KKK, supported decriminalizing illegal border crossings, etc.
Why is your lack of knowledge my problem? Come on back. I just threw you a life preserver.
FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris Compared ICE To KKK, Said Agency Should Be Restarted ‘From Scratch’
Vice President Kamala Harris, now a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, once compared federal immigration agents to white supremacists and suggested their agency should be completely reformed.
Harris in 2018 compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the Ku Klux Klan, and she suggested earlier that year that the entire agency should be abolished and started again “from scratch.” President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Harris on Sunday, making her a top contender for the party’s nomination.
Speaking during a November 2018 Senate confirmation hearing for Ron Vitiello to be the next ICE director, then-Senator Harris took umbrage with Vitiello’s past statements calling the Democratic Party “liberalcratic” and “NeoKlanist.” In her exchange with Vitiello about the tactics of the KKK, she asked him if he saw “any parallels” between ICE and the white supremacist organization.
“Are you aware of the perception of many about how the power and the discretion at ICE is being used to enforce the laws and do you see any parallels?” Harris asked the then-nominee to lead the agency.
“I see no perception that puts ICE in the same category as the KKK,” Vitiello answered. “Is that what you’re asking me?”
Harris then repeated her claim, asking if he was “aware that there is a perception that ICE is administering its power in a way that is causing fear and intimidation, particularly among immigrants, and specifically among immigrants coming from Mexico and Central America?”
Vitiello, again, said he did not see a parallel between the two groups. Harris then criticized him, asking how he could lead an agency if he isn’t aware of this alleged “perception.”
When asked by NBC’s Kasie Hunt in June 2018 if she supported abolishing ICE, Harris suggested a complete overhaul of the agency was necessary.
“There’s no question that we’ve got to critically reexamine ICE and its role, and the way that it is being administered, and the work it is doing,” Harris explained. “And we need to probably think about starting from scratch.”
A Democratic presidential ticket led by Harris will lead to a dramatic shift to the left on immigration enforcement, RJ Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE), told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Kamala Harris wasn’t just Biden’s Border Czar, she was his Abolish ICE Director — directing the agency in charge of enforcing our immigration laws to willfully violate them,” Hauman said. “Now that Biden is out of the picture, she is sure to return to some of the most insane anti-enforcement positions that we’ve ever seen from an elected official.”
“The choice in November will now be even more clear — mass deportation or mass release of illegal aliens and violent criminals into American communities,” Hauman continued.
NICE publicly criticized Harris on Sunday for once pledging to shut down all private prisons provided to ICE — a move that would virtually abolish ICE enforcement completely, given that nearly all detention beds are provided by private contractors.
much of your response is about her past and digging up anything you can find it is typical response from people who think like you trying to hold on to past norms… a lot of people that think like you do the same, unable to hear anything else… your response is all in the past she is the future
what is she saying? “We are not going back!! I will say that a few more times so you and ppl like you can understand..We are not going back.. We are not going back…
Past patterns of behaviour are excellent indicators of future actions. That is how the world works. Do not forget that her positions are a matter of public record.
That said, please feel free to make specific comments and not one generalization, on the posted facts.
She is the future? Seriously? Who is this “we” you mention?
Well said!!!! Nailed it.
OH NO! Not the Fox News comeback! BZZZZZ! Wrong! Wow, you are just racking up the demerits today.
Why would you call her father a liar? Shame on you! Shame, shame, shame. You danced poorly on this one but I did expect you to put your two cents worth. Best check your sources because your boat don’t float. She has accomplished NOTHING that has made life in the USA better. She was given border responsibility and has failed miserably. Her positions on what was listed are facts.
Now, look for all sorts of organizations to come forth and give her achievements awards for nothing – just like the organizations did for Hillary.
FYI. I predicted three years ago that Biden would find a reason to step down and Harris would be sworn in as president. Close to what is happening but November is still a few months away. Biden might accidentally trip over his SS-chomping dog and fall down the stairs in the White House.
Ok, this time I will positively rely on Fox News.
In a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson, J.D. Vance, then a United States Senator, said that the US was run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too”.
That is quite a statement from someone who wants to be Vice President.
Awww, look, more dancing and deflecting. Your boat sunk and you are floundering in the water, gasping for air. But hey, let’s look at what an actual VP said.
Search: Watch: VP Kamala Harris supports bans on plastic straws & offshore drilling – Changes to dietary guidelines to battle ‘climate change, & seeks ‘to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal’
That page brings up a long list of relevant links such as:
Joe Bastardi’s Point-by-point rebuttal of Kamala Harris’s unscientific climate tweet
Watch: Likely Dem Prez Nominee Kamala Harris says she would force millions of workers in the energy sector to ‘transition’ to new jobs — such as ‘installation of wind turbines and solar paneling’
Flashback 2021: Kamala’s ‘evidence-free empty rhetoric’: Watch: Morano on Tucker Carlson talks VP Kamala Harris blaming immigration on ‘climate change’
Kamala Harris Defends the Green New Deal and Wants a ’New President’ So ‘We Can Change Human Behaviors’ on Climate Change
Kamala Harris laughs about paper straws quickly collapsing, but still wants to ban plastic straws
COVID lockdowns to morph into climate lockdowns: Biden’s VP pick Kamala Harris seeks Green New Deal so ‘we can change human behaviors’
Kamala’s Nutty Green Vision: Ban Plastic Straws, Limit Red Meat
VP nominee Kamala Harris has a particular climate-change agenda: environmental justice
Kamala Harris Defends the Green New Deal and Wants a ’New President’ So ‘We Can Change Human Behaviors’ on Climate Change
Kamala Harris is PRANKED by Russian hoaxers who pose as climate activist Greta Thunberg and her father and offer Biden’s VP pick ‘dirt’ on Trump
Flashback: Kamala Harris sued Obama-Biden over fracking
Like Biden, Kamala Harris Has Endorsed A Complete Fracking Ban – Harris: ‘There is no question I’m in favor of banning fracking’
Kamala Harris Flip-Flops on Fracking After Polls Tighten in Pennsylvania
VP nominee Kamala Harris asks about smoking/cancer & climate change in Q&A with Amy Coney Barrett
Kamala Harris Tells Unemployed Coal Miners That After Biden Kills Their Jobs They Should Work Reclaiming Abandoned ‘Land Mines’
“Land Mines” Joe Biden killed tens of thousands of jobs his first day in office when he canceled contracts with the Keystone XL pipeline. Biden and his “Climate Envoy” John Kerry are waging war on the energy sector but fear not because Kamala Harris is here to save the day. TRENDING: Perfect. […]
Media Puff Piece: Fighting Climate Change Could Define Kamala Harris’ Vice Presidency
VP Kamala Harris announces new $3 billion US pledge to ‘global climate action’ at UN Dubai summit to help developing nations ‘cut fossil fuel pollution’
Vice President Kamala Harris announced new funding for climate action on Saturday at the COP28 summit in Dubai, where she touted American leadership on the climate crisis, including its recent investments in clean energy and efforts to make vulnerable communities more resilient to worsening climate disasters. Harris said the US would […]
KAMALA HARRIS misspeaks?!: ‘When we invest in clean energy & electric vehicles & REDUCE POPULATION, more of our children can breath clean air & drink clean water’
KAMALA HARRIS: “When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breath clean air and drink clean water.” July 14, 2023 Kamala Harris mistakenly proposes reducing population instead of pollution – In a verbal slip-up, Harris spoke of reducing ‘population’ to breathe […]
VP Kamala Harris urges youth organizing to fight ‘climate anxiety’ – ‘You have endured a mental & emotional toll of this crisis’
Linking the climate crisis to youth-driven political movements of the past, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a Denver high school Friday and urged students to organize and fight to change the hotter, dryer world they’re inheriting. “You have endured a mental and emotional toll of this crisis,” she said at Denver’s […]
Kamala Harris issues dire climate warning in Africa: ‘Existential threat to the entire planet’ – Praises Zambian farm for climate-friendly agriculture practices
FOX NEWS: about an hour ago. border czar Harris has made one (1) visit to the border in 3.5 years. ONE VISIT. UNA VISITA. has never met with the head of border security. what leadership.
Why do you care about the US election?
Do you live there?
Long overdue! Who runs the world? or Who shall be running the world?
Remember your vote does not count, there is nothing she can do to get in, after the trump shooting the writing is on the wall !!
much of your response is about her past and digging up anything you can find it is typical response from people who think like you trying to hold on to past norms… a lot of people that think like you do the same, unable to hear anything else… your response is all in the past she is the future
what is she saying? “We are not going back!! I will say that a few more times so you and ppl like you can understand..We are not going back.. We are not going back…
OK, you posted the same comments twice so I will do the same.
Past patterns of behaviour are excellent indicators of future actions. That is how the world works. Do not forget that her positions are a matter of public record.
That said, please feel free to make specific comments and not one generalization, on the posted facts.
She is the future? Seriously? Who is this “we” you mention?
So what I gather from the comments is that Ms. Harris should be the Democrat nominee because of her race and gender.
Isn’t that how Bermuda is ruled?
The mainstream left media is trying to make her look like a saint in order to get her elected, she is far from a saint, she has done nothing for the black population. They are trying to erase all of her records of all the bad things that she has done including locking up so many black men while she was a prosecutor for minor offenses. Voting for her based on identity politics will be the biggest mistake they could make if she became president the United States will be in serious trouble. I wish those people went on that call would have done their research before doing so., Kamala Harris is Hillary Clinton 2.0 or even worse.
When are you all going to learn that the Democrats used the black vote in order to get elected. They don’t give a damm about the black population. Wake Up!!
That sounds very much like one of our Bermudian political parties.