Vice President Kamala Harris brought a historic Democratic National Convention to a close with a speech outlining her vision for America’s future on Thursday.
And a number of DNC speakers used the hours leading up to Harris to scorch former President Donald Trump.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton told the Chicago crowd that the GOP nominee has been consistently “making himself richer” and “sowing division to get that done.”
“This man sat right here in Chicago a few weeks ago refusing to apologize for claims that migrants were taking Black jobs,” said Sharpton of Trump, who was asked about his “Black jobs” remarks during his chaotic appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention last month.
“Well, in November, we’re gonna show him when Blacks do their jobs,” Sharpton added.
Sharpton’s speech was followed by remarks by Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated “Central Park Five” who was wrongly accused of an assault in 1989. Prior to the group’s trial, Trump paid $85,000 for a full-page newspaper ad calling for New York to bring back the death penalty.
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Salaam, now a New York City councilmember, declared that America “will finally say goodbye to that hateful man” when “they see us.”
Salaam added, “We will say what I have said after seven long years of wrongful incarceration: Free at last, free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last.”
