*More than 100 Black male activists, preachers, rappers and celebrities signed an an open letter Monday calling on Joe Biden to pick a Black woman as his running mate.
The letter makes clear that if he does not succumb to the liberal pressure of choosing a Black woman to “save” him, then he will lose the election.
“As someone who has said throughout the campaign that VP Joe Biden needs to choose a Black woman VP, the urgency for that pick has gone from something that SHOULD happen to something that HAS to happen,” the open letter said, published the week Biden is expected to announce his running mate.
As reported by USA Today, the letter follows a similar one penned in an April and signed by more than 700 Black women influencers calling on Biden to “recognize and seize this moment” by picking a Black woman as his running mate.
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.@Diddy, @cthagod & others sign letter calling @JoeBiden to choose a black VP
“Failing to select a Black woman in 2020 means you will lose the election. We don’t want to choose between the lesser of two evils & we don’t want to vote for the devil we know vs the devil we don’t” pic.twitter.com/T57mcEsoYz
— Molly Nagle (@MollyNagle3) August 10, 2020
Van Jones, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Charlamagne Tha God, Bishop William J. Barber and civil rights attorney Ben Crump, were among the hundreds of men who signed the list.
“It disgusts us that Black women are not just being vetted in this VP process but unfairly criticized and scrutinized,” the letter states.
The letter goes on to note that Senator Kamala Harris, said to be on Biden’s shortlist of VPs, is too ambitions.
“Was Joe Biden ever labeled ‘too ambitious’ because he ran for president three times? Should President Obama not have made him VP because he had to worry about his ‘loyalty’ when he clearly had AMBITIONS to be president himself?” the letter asks.
“Failing to select a Black woman in 2020 means you will lose the election. We don’t want to choose between the lesser of two evils & we don’t want to vote for the devil we know vs the devil we don’t,” the letter states.
The authors also reminded Biden of the blind support he receives from the Black community.
“For too long Black women have been asked to do everything from rally the troops to risk their lives for the Democratic Party with no acknowledgment, no respect, no visibility, and certainly not enough support,” the letter continues.
Peep the full letter via the Twitter embed above.
Meanwhile, we previously reported… on the inaugural episode of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee joined host Joy Reid for a special one-on-one interview to kick off the debut of the show to discuss the impact of COVID-19, Trump’s rhetoric and his selection for a potential vice presidential candidate.
On selecting a Black woman as a potential running mate, Biden told Reid:
“I am not committed to naming any but the people I have named, and among them, there are four Black women. So, that decision is underway right now. And, by the way, Black women have supported me my entire career. You all act like all of a sudden, there was an epiphany in South Carolina. I have had over a 96 percent — 94 percent rating in the state with the eighth-largest Black community in the United States of America, Delaware. And so they’re the ones, as that old saying goes, that brought me to the dance. I have been loyal. They have been loyal to me. And so it is important that my administration, I promise you, will look like America, both as — from vice president, to Supreme Court, to Cabinet positions, to every major position in the White House. It’s going to look like America. It’s critically important that be the case. I can guarantee you that.”
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