Alicia Keys, At Kamala Harris Rally, Says Trump Platform Would Roll Back Women’s Rights: “This Is Not Some Dystopian Netflix Show I’m Talking About”
deadline.comAlicia Keys, campaigning for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania today, refused to mention Donald Trump by name while warning that his platform would “turn back the clock” on women’s rights. “If you don’t vote for her, or you don’t vote at all, you’re voting for the chaos and the hate,” she told a rally in Montgomery County, PA, where she was appearing with former First Lady Michelle Obama. “You’re voting for a cruel tomorrow for immigrants, people of color, women, girls, our children and our planet,” she said.
Keys said that she wants to see her children “grow up in a world where they can see that leadership has many faces, and that one of them looks like Kamala Harris.” She added, “It’s crazy because too many people think women can’t lead just because they haven’t seen enough of it.
When our kids look around their classrooms at the pictures of presidents on the wall, every single one is a man, one Black guy.
No wonder it is hard for many to imagine a female president. They have never seen one, and if they can’t see it, how can they believe it?” Keys noted that women “had reproductive freedom, but not so much now, and that’s why we’re still fighting today.
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