Dipsey Doo
Superstar
Kamala is a real dummy for continuing to lie about her identity and past so flagrantly.
Kamala receiving backlash after claiming she grew up in the black church
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SplizThaDon
How do u know she lied?
Hater Eraser
Veteran
Is she paying you?
I always get a good laugh at people who say “I can’t keep defending xyz”. It’s a choice you can stop at any time beloved
I’m not defending anyone I don’t know, even if I know them, there’s still a line
Hater Eraser
Veteran
Then moved back to the bay and became DA ..
She and her team keep trying to push identity politics instead of just sticking to policy
When you run on a pro-Chicken Noodle Soup dance platform with Nae Naenomics as a solution for the economy, the result is this pander til the wheels fall off bullsħit
She and her team keep trying to push identity politics instead of just sticking to policy
and Trump is sticking to policy right?
Pull Up the Roots
I have a good time when I go out of my mind..
@Barnett114 @Houston911Low IQ demic00ns already calling her Mammala Harris now
Why is this white guy still allowed to sit on here and say shyt like this?
Pull Up the Roots
I have a good time when I go out of my mind..
You are a racist white Trump supporter from the wrestling section.Snitch tagging the mods like a sensitive demic00n fakkit
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Unemployed GM
All Star
Good grief, Kamala is just a light skinned jamanican woman. Her Father was a light skinned Jamaican dude. Y’all nikkas act like y’all aint seen a light skinned woman before. She ain’t ADOS/FBA. She threw some p*ssy on some political nikkas in Cali to get ahead back in the day. I ain’t voting for her cause she has a prosecutor background, and is a lame neoliberal. All this “she ain’t black” shyt is corny.
Pull Up the Roots
I have a good time when I go out of my mind..
Those "FBA" clowns always seem to be following a bunch of MAGA accounts too, confirming that they're just Trump supporters in disguise. It's even more apparent when they're posting bullshyt from Vince Ellison's dumb ass.
Dude has "Black Empowerment" in his profile, but is following a bunch of anti-Black racists.
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Amos Brown, pastor to Kamala Harris, known for civil rights, reparations activism
(RNS) — Vice President Kamala Harris has praised Brown, ‘my pastor,’ as a man who also has long been her mentor.
The Rev. Amos Brown speaks during a rally in support of reparations for African Americans as Supervisor Shamann Walton, left, listens outside City Hall in San Francisco, on Sept. 19, 2023. San Francisco's supervisors offered a formal apology to Black residents for decades of racist laws and policies perpetrated by the city. All 11 supervisors signed on as sponsors of an apology resolution to be voted on Feb. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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(RNS) — The Rev. Amos Brown, a longtime pastor of Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, was specific when he described Vice President Kamala Harris’ connection to his church.
“She’s an old-timer” at the church, he told Religion News Service in an interview on Monday (July 22).
In fact, as he told RNS in 2023, she’s also “a dues-paying member too.” That might help explain why, when Harris met with Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh leaders in Los Angeles the previous year to discuss abortion rights and other issues, Brown was in attendance.
Or why, when she spoke of him that same year, she praised “my pastor” as a man who also has long been her mentor.
“For two decades now, at least, I have turned to you,” Harris said in remarks at the 2022 Annual Session of the National Baptist Convention, USA. “I have turned to him. And I will say that your wisdom has really guided me and grounded me during some of the most difficult times. And — and you have been a source of inspiration to me always. So thank you, Reverend Brown, for being all that you are.”
And the long-standing connection between the two might be why Harris turned to Brown again this week, reaching out to him over the phone after President Joe Biden abandoned his reelection bid and endorsed the vice president. She asked for prayer, and Brown happily obliged.
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Brown and his wife prayed that Harris “would receive the thing that Micah 6:8 records in the Bible, the fulfillment of what the Lord requires: to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with her God,” Brown told RNS.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at an event May 1, 2024, in Jacksonville, Fla. She’s already broken barriers, and now Harris could soon become the first Black woman to head a major party’s presidential ticket after President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid. The 59-year-old Harris was endorsed by Biden on July 21 after he stepped aside amid widespread concerns about the viability of his candidacy. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
He also prayed Harris would move forward in her campaign “in the spirit of our ancestors.” Brown recited lines from “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn sometimes referred to as the “Black national anthem”: “God of our weary years, God of our silent years, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by Thy might, Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray.”
“That’s what this nation needs,” Brown said, later noting that he endorses Harris for president in his personal capacity. “That’s what this vice president and, hopefully, president, will be elevated to be: To bring this nation out of darkness. The darkness of incivility. The darkness of lying. The darkness of injustice. The darkness of irresponsible behavior — and that goes at all levels, from the local community up to the national government.”
Brown, 83, explained he and Harris also have a shared political history: Harris served as Brown’s campaign manager when he ran for reelection to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1999, and Brown joined his wife in praying over Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, immediately before the 2021 inauguration ceremony.
“She was very close to our church family,” Brown said.
Brown’s history with Harris extends to her family as well. A Jackson, Mississippi, native and civil rights activist who was taught by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a class at Morehouse College in the 1960s, Brown mentioned meeting Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, along with others who participated in civil rights activism.
The Rev. Amos Brown, right, and Rabbi Jack Moline, of Interfaith Alliance, attend an announcement by the Progressive National Baptist Convention at the National Press Club, on Oct. 9, 2018, in Washington. (RNS photo/Adelle M. Banks)
He formerly was a leader of Baptist churches in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and St. Paul, Minnesota, and has pastored Third Baptist since 1976.
His church, which has been affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA, and the American Baptist Churches USA, was the site of a 2023 meeting of California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans shortly before it released its final report.
“Harm has been done to Black folks by this nation,” Brown, the vice chair of the task force, told RNS at the time. “And it’s time for us to respond and not react but respond in a responsible, rational, realistic way that will give us results to bring Black folks from the bottom of the well economically, academically, healthwise.”
The Associated Press/Report for America reported in May that the California Senate had sent reparations proposals to the state Assembly, including a measure that would help Black families confirm that they were eligible for future state restitution.
Speaking to RNS this week, Brown attributed Third Baptist’s longevity (it was founded in 1852) to its long history of social justice advocacy — or, as he put it, “the fact that we’ve always been focused on the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and we have not focused on personalities.”
He added: “That’s why Vice President Harris, early on in her academic and political careers, connected with this church.”
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown was an opponent of churches reopening too soon.
“We are not going to be rushing back to church,” he said in a phone interview with the AP, noting that many denominational leaders had died or been sickened. Freedom of religion is “not the freedom to kill folks, not the freedom to put people in harm’s way. That’s insane,” he said.
In 2020, Brown was among a list of 350 faith leaders who endorsed the Biden/Harris campaign.
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, stand together on stage on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 20, 2020, outside of the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Early in the Trump administration, Brown supported Black clergy who declared themselves independent of both the “liberal left” and the “religious right.” He advocated for get-out-the-vote efforts ahead of the next elections when he spoke during a 2018 news conference.
“We’ve got to really vote like hell in this midterm election and in 2020 and get rid of this excuse ‘my one vote won’t count,’” said Brown. “Every vote counts. We’ve got to get that over to our congregations.”
This week, however, Brown appeared to lob thinly veiled criticism at former President Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican nominee. Referring to how versions of Christianity’s “golden rule” can be found in multiple religions, Brown asked how someone could refer to immigrants as “evil, cruel” or “rapists” — a reference to descriptions Trump has used.
“Why would you do that to other people?” Brown said.
Earlier in his tenure at Third Baptist, the church created a summer school program, a music academy and an after-school enrichment program with a local synagogue.
Beyond his church, Brown has been involved in national and global events, including the 2001 United Nations Conference on Race and Intolerance in Durban, South Africa, where he represented the NAACP’s national board.
Brown told the San Francisco Chronicle that he learned from King, “sitting at his feet at Morehouse,” about “personalism”: “Every person should be viewed as having dignity regardless of how different they may be. We should respect them.”
In what might seem to be unusual pairings, Brown has joined forces with people outside Black Baptist circles for collaborations.
In 2014, Brown and evangelist Franklin Graham wrote a joint anti-violence opinion column in USA Today in the wake of the police killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York.
“None of us is always right — and none is always wrong,” they wrote. “We believe we could all use a good dose of humility — we must avoid arrogance, even in our convictions.”
The Rev. Amos C. Brown, right, and President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hug during a news conference June 14, 2021, in Salt Lake City. Top leaders from the NAACP and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced $9.25 million in new educational and humanitarian projects as they seek to build on an alliance formed in 2018. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Brown, the president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP, appeared at a news conference marking the 2022 rededication of the Washington, D.C., temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2021, the LDS church and NAACP launched initiatives including scholarships for Black college students. Brown is the namesake of a fellowship that has brought young adults to Ghana with leaders of the NAACP and the LDS church to learn the history of slavery.
“I am humbled by this great example of this faith community uniting in order to heal the breaches in our nation, making bonds and setting the bar higher for us to move away from war, strife, prejudice in a world that so desperately needs people of good will and justice,” Brown said at the news conference.
Brown told the Chronicle in a 2021 interview that the LDS church’s family research enabled him to learn that his great-great-grandfather, who was born enslaved, eventually owned 150 acres of land and with two other African American men established a church and a school.
“(I)t’s a blessing to me that even in my genealogical chart there was a meeting of self-determination, of enlightened piety, social justice, and high and noble respect for education,” he told the San Francisco newspaper.
Dipsey Doo
Superstar
I mean does this look the type of family that would serve on the usher board, sing in the choir or fret about Pastor's Anniversary?
