Another Take: Will Kamala Harris tip the scales with Black women?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on September 16, 2020. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed.
Joe Biden kept his promise: The Democratic nominee for US President picked a woman as his running mate. Kamala Harris is a senator and the daughter of South Asian and Black immigrants.
Now that we know she's on the ticket, we're revisiting an episode exploring the power of Black women voters — one of the most important slices of the American electorate in deciding who takes the White House.
In this episode:
- Imaeyen Ibanga (@iiwrites), presenter and reporter for AJ+
- Glynda Carr (@glyndacarr) president and CEO of Higher Heights for America
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Amy Walters. The original production team was Ney Alvarez, Dina Kesbeh, Abigail Ony Nwaohuocha , Alexandra Locke, Priyanka Tilve, Amy Walters, Stacey Samuel, Graelyn Brashear, and Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:09.4 | Hi, it's Amy Walter, senior producer with a take, back with another take, where we revisit episodes from the past. |
| 0:19.1 | This week, Black women vote again. As Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic |
| 0:25.7 | Party nomination, many people may have been thinking back to four years ago when Joe Biden |
| 0:32.3 | first picked Harris to be his running mate. It was historic. Representation was one reason, but it wasn't the |
| 0:40.2 | only reason. Black women vote Democrat. Some say they're the backbone of the Democratic Party, |
| 0:47.7 | the most reliably Democratic of any demographic. They also organize others to vote. |
| 0:55.4 | We take a look back at why those women came out then. |
| 0:59.9 | This episode last aired on September 16th, 2020. |
| 1:04.5 | Remember, none of the names or dates have been changed. |
| 1:22.3 | This year, the United States is looking at another presidential election, |
| 1:28.2 | and the Democratic Party is aggressively trying to take back the White House from the Republicans. |
| 1:33.8 | So for 2020, the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, made an offer. |
| 1:38.9 | I commit that I will, in fact, pick a woman to be vice president. |
| 1:44.2 | So there is a possibility the U.S. could finally get a female vice president. |
| 1:50.3 | I have no doubt that I picked the right person to join me as the next vice president of America, and that's Senator Kamala Harris. |
| 1:54.0 | Well, not only female, but a U.S. senator who represents different communities as the |
| 2:00.4 | daughter of immigrants, South Asian and Black. |
| 2:03.9 | And Joe, I'm so proud to stand with you. |
| 2:09.3 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take. |
| 2:26.2 | Elections like election cycle after election cycle, black women have become one of the most important electorates in deciding the fate of who will be moving into the White House. Now, with a black |
| 2:32.0 | woman as a VP candidate on the Democrats ticket, we wondered, will they come out in support of Joe Biden? |
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