‘Rocking with Kamala Harris’: Thousands of Black men rally, raise money on video call
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) arrives with his two children for his ceremonial swearing in with Vice President Kamala Harris at the Capitol in Washington, DC on January 3rd, 2022. (Nathan Posner for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Ernie Suggs | July 23, 2024 | AJC |
In 2019, one of Bakari Sellers’ twin daughters was born with a rare liver condition in a birth that nearly killed his wife. Sellers, a former South Carolina politician and current CNN political commentator, has told the story before.
But on Monday night on a video call with more than 53,000 Black men, he couldn’t stop the tears from coming down as he recounted how his wife and daughter are now well and about the support he got during that ordeal.
“I will never forget, the first person to call me …,” he said, pausing for 20 seconds to get the words out. ” … was Kamala Harris. I am not sure people understand the pain and suffering that goes along with being a Black man in this country. I am not sure people understand what it means to stand strong in this country. To have your back against the wall. But I am going to stand with her because she stood with me during my darkest moment when I almost lost my daughter. When I had to protect my wife.”