Kamala Harris Delivers Passionate Speech at CBC Phoenix Awards Dinner

Kamala Harris Honored by CBC

• 🏅 Kamala Harris expresses deep honor at receiving an award, considering herself a lifetime member of the CBC.
• 💡 She acknowledges the Congressional Black Caucus for its longstanding leadership and support, celebrating its role as the conscience of America.

Challenges to American Promise

• ⚠️ Harris highlights the unprecedented but familiar threat to the promise of America, emphasizing the importance of the CBC's work.
• 🏛️ She criticizes the executive branch for lining pockets of the super-rich while impacting working people through tariffs, cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, and ignoring science.
• 🗣️ She notes the surprising capitulation of institutions like universities, law firms, and corporations to the current administration.

Power of the People

• ✊ Harris celebrates instances where the power of the people was demonstrated, citing consumer actions that led to a comedian returning to the air and the impact of collective voices.
• 🎯 She stresses that leaders must remind people of their power and speak truth with courage.

Midterm Elections and Long-Term Strategy

• 🗳️ The speech calls for winning the midterm elections to enforce checks and balances on an "unchecked, incompetent, unhinged president."
• 🧠 Harris warns against the extreme rightwing's long-term agenda, which she states is being implemented today with propaganda and misinformation, and has been decades in the making.

Democratic Unity and Action

• 🎯 Harris urges Democrats to get over the complex that suggests one individual can save them, highlighting the many stars within the party, many present at the event.
• 🔥 She calls for leaders to be ready for the fight, to speak truth, and to fight fire with fire.
• 🤝 The speech concludes with a call to action for the CBC to get to work.