Vice President Harris and Governor Tim Walz will have our backs
By: Deon Cannon
Just two days after Kamala Harris officially announced her run for President, I had the chance to attend her first rally. The packed high school gym in West Allis was filled with excitement and you could feel the energy for the first black and South Asian woman at the top of the ticket!
After such a great time at the rally, I was watching closely with anticipation to see who Vice President Harris would choose to be her running mate.
Vice President Harris choosing Governor Tim Walz as her running mate has made me feel even more confident in the Democratic ticket.
I am a young, black man born and raised here in Milwaukee. Sure, Governor Walz and I come from different backgrounds, but we share the same values. In his role as Governor of Minnesota, he has been a champion for the Midwestern values that support working families and strengthen our communities.
As Governor, Walz has prioritized public safety, pushing for more trust and transparency with law enforcement by investing in body cameras for officers and banning chokeholds. When it comes to health care, he ensured affordable access to insulin for Minnesotans by successfully capping the cost of insulin to $35 a month and has put protections for reproductive freedoms into law in his state.
Vice President Harris and Governor Walz will continue to deliver for black communities – especially my community in Milwaukee. Whether that is investing in HBCUs, student debt relief, closing the racial wealth gap, lowering prescription drug prices, supporting small black businesses – they are delivering for us.
While Donald Trump was president, the black community suffered. Black unemployment was up to 9.9 percent – and he continuously proposed budgets that would cut Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, food assistance programs, and housing. He tried to repeal Obamacare, which would have taken away healthcare for 3-million black Americans. If Trump is re-elected, he will begin unleashing his Project 2025 agenda that includes repealing Obamacare, reversing the law that is capping insulin at $35, ending student debt relief, banning abortion nationally, and cutting Social Security and Medicare.
Aside from his terrible policies, Donald Trump thinks that the city we live in is “horrible” and he thinks we work “black jobs.” I’m not even sure I know what that means! What I do know is that the black community needs a president and vice president who will have our backs. From the work that I have already seen, I know that Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz will be our champions. I couldn’t be more excited to cast my vote for them in November.
