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Related: About this forumWatch: Palestinian American Lawmaker Gives Speech the DNC Wouldn't Allow on Stage
Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday after a four-day convention in Chicago where her campaign refused to allow a Palestinian American to take the stage to address Israel's war on Gaza. We hear Georgia state Representative Ruwa Romman, who was among the list of speakers offered by the Uncommitted National Movement that the Harris campaign rejected, reading the speech she would have given on the convention floor had the DNC and the Harris campaign allowed her onstage.
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Watch: Palestinian American Lawmaker Gives Speech the DNC Wouldn't Allow on Stage (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Aug 23
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Ocelot II
(120,110 posts)1. If she was uncommitted to Harris she didn't belong at the DNC at all
and certainly wasn't entitled to speak there.
LisaM
(28,456 posts)4. Agreed. This was a nominating convention.
This is what she SAID she would say, but we don't know that would happen.
I can fully understand not letting an uncommitted delegate speak. We all saw what happened in 2016. I think it was important to stress unity at the convention.
Hekate
(94,283 posts)2. Did the RNC also "not allow her onstage" ? Or did she & her friends not even try with that lot?
Inquiring minds and all that.
Another question: Do any of them even remember that one of the first things Trump did as potus was try to stop all Muslims from entering the US, causing chaos at US airports?
No?
I recommend that she and the rest read Project 2025.
Uncle Joe
(59,996 posts)3. They're Democrats and she addresses *rump at about the 4:50 mark.
They know all too well who *rump and his Republican Party are.