When the Massachusetts Democrat approached the convention from the Early Childhood Education Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, the letters “BLM” could be seen on a board over her left shoulder.
“We must all be in the fight to get Joe and Kamala elected. And after November, we must all be in the fight to get big things done,” Warren said in her remarks. “We remain in battle, so if our children and our grandchildren ask what we did during this dark chapter in the history of our nation. We will be able to face them and say, ‘We are organizing,’ we have persisted, we have changed America. “
Warren has struggled to pass legislation against racial injustice in the U.S. on Capitol Hill.
The amendment specifically requested that the names of Confederate leaders be removed from all military possessions – whether a base, installation, facility, aircraft, ship, aircraft or type of equipment – within three years.
The plan was adopted behind closed doors by voting with the support of some Republicans, even as President Donald Trump condemned any action to remove Confederate leaders’ names from military bases, and give the White House a promise of power. against such a legislative effort.
“For weeks, Americans around this nation have taken to the streets to call for justice and to call for an end to the racist violence that has stolen far too many Black lives,” she said at the time. “We say the names of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and Atatiana Jefferson and so many other Black men and women to confirm the simple but powerful truth that they mattered. Their lives mattered. Black lives matter.”
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