WFAA, September 8, 2024
On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Penzey’s
Spices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1. @CristieRoybal
"Yay, Penzey’s Spice. Love you and your spices. Thanks Kamala
Harris for visiting a store that supports democracy and immigrants."
2.
"Thanks, Bill Penze for standing up for democracy, the rule
of law and our constitution."
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3. @dianewilliams5819
"PENZYS is the best spice company in the world because you
can trust their moral integrity and commitment to family and USA! Their high
quality products are a bonus!"
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4. @BettyAlex-g3k
"Penzey's has been MY Spice Store for over 15 years! I am SO SO SO PROUD of the owner and
management for their stand for REAL PEOPLE and Democracy and EQUALITY. 75-yr-old Great-Grandma says THANK YOU for
your Philosophy and Thank You for WONDERFUL spices!"
PODCASTER STATEMENTS AND PODCAST CHAT MESSAGES ABOUT VP HARRIS' INTERACTIONS DURING HER PENZEYS SPICES CAMPAIGN STOP (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sept. 7, 2024)
#ResistanceLive, September 9, 2024 [podcaster Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin, also known as "ECM"]
[Pancocojams Editor's Note: These statements are from an excerpt of this podcast's auto-generated transcript. I added punctuations and corrected some capitalizations and some spelling. I also added a few words in brackets that I believe were implied as well as one word that clarifies what the podcaster stated.]
This excerpt is from 28:005 to around 30:15 in that podcast.
..."because I know everybody needs good news in moments of high
anxiety... about what happened in Penzeys in Pittsburgh over the weekend. So um if you missed it- and I don't know how you
could have at this point because the footage is everywhere-but uh Kamala Harris did a campaign stop in Penzeys Spices in
Pittsburgh.
Uh you all know Pittsburgh is near and dear to my heart. I went to college in Pittsburgh. Um you know I'm not
going to try my best yinzer accent. But uh I, you know, was there after college before I went to law school for a couple of
years as well. And uh you know I love the Burg. Okay, in my own way I still have friends there who live in Squirrel Hill
who were campaigning for Malcolm Kenyatta.
All right um I will tell you that the emotional responses in Penzeys in that footage are incredibly
telling because - reminder: Western Pennsylvania is often referred to as "Pennsyltucky". It is referred to as you know essentially a red area in large part.
All right and the footage that
everybody keeps looking at kind of routinely is the footage where Kamala Harris walked into Penzeys and there was a woman standing there with her cell phone sobbing sobbing.
And Kamala Harris- because she has a person with
empathy unlike the guy on the other side of the ticket ["I think ECM meant "Presidential contest or race, referring to former President Donald Trump] .
[She] saw this woman...[She] was like "What's
going on?" Like [she] immediately knew that something was up. [She said] "What's going on."? And the response from this woman -paraphrasing of course but was essentially- "I
think you get it and I think you know what's going on."
And Kamala Harris's response to that was "It's
going to be okay. We're going to be okay. We're fighting back together. We are going to be okay."
And that was
a moment that um I feel like a lot of us particularly women and marginalized
people could feel in our bones right this thing of "Please tell me I'm going to
be safe. Please tell me it's going to be okay. Please tell tell me that the
country isn't going to you know devolve further. Please tell me that the people I love are going to be safe, that my rights
are going to be protected, the rights of everyone I care about are going to be
protected. Tell me that you're going to win. Tell me that you get it."
And that is
what Kamala Harris did in real time. It was an incredibly reassuring and
comforting moment and also a moment of real recognition”…
-snip-
ECM didn't share that toward the end of Vice President Kamala Harris' interaction with that woman she says "We love our country". And the woman says "Absolutely".
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SELECTED CHAT MESSAGES ABOUT VP HARRIS' INTERACTIONS DURING HER PENZEYS SPICES CAMPAIGN STOP (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sept. 7, 2024)
1.
"PA is purple turning blue"
2.
"Yes...I live on the western edge of Allegheny County...and we say Pennsylvania on one side, Philly on the other, and Alabama in the middle...."
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3. Kim Lounsbury
"Shop Penzys - they are awesome and the spices are top notch! 💙💙💙"
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4. Lisa Polsby
"Pittsburgh is great too"
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5. Galloping
"I wept at the clip of Kamala hugging the traumatized woman."
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6. Jay Metcalf
"I actually cried watching that. I’m tearing up thinking about it."
"I'm still crying from the Penzey's hug!"
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8. samuel mncedisi
"T[h]at
interaction between VP /Harris and the kid was heartwarming, and with the rest
of the folks."
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9. Katherine D
"Truly
sweet and kind"
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10. Teresa Ray
"It was incredibly touching and I cried
like a baby"
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11, ikantdanz
"I
cried. She brings the humanism we’ve been missing in politics"
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12. Mike Roussakies
"Okay
I did see this video and was like wow and they should play this video
everywhere"
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13. Lisa Hadden
"It was a moving moment at Penzy's"
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14. Solveig Whittle
"Penzys video was so meta. Yes all of this you are saying.
Harris gets it. High EQ. High IQ"
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15. Kelley Ramsey
"that THE MOST BEAUTIFUL video of our next President,
KAMALA HARRIS 🩵💙🩵💙🩵"
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16. Linda Bryan
"Penzey's and the owner rock! Use their spices every day."
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17. Lee Sweet
"That was wonderful"
18. BetteLouWho
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I've lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for almost 55 years. Anad even though both the mayor and the public school superintendent are Black, I wasn't surprised to see that everyone in that video of VP Kamala Harris' campaign visit to Penzeys Spices were White except for VP Harris and a man who was one of her security team.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard about Penzeys Spices before watching a video about VP. Kamala Harris' visit to that store. That may be because buying spices outside of supermarkets isn't my thing, but the fact that its located in the Strip District where parking is often difficult to find is one reason why I didn't know about that store.
Black people only make up 23% of the population of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.* A lot of times when my family and I attend events downtown and elsewhere outside of that city's majority Black neighborhoods or its integrated neighborhoods like East Liberty where we live, it often seems like there aren't any other Black people at all in this city.
There's a lot of reasons for this which I won't go into now, but since I've learned about Penzeys Spices I'll certainly be checking it out.
*from https://datausa.io/profile/geo/pittsburgh-pa/
"The 5 largest ethnic groups in Pittsburgh, PA are White (Non-Hispanic) (63.1%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (23.1%), Asian (Non-Hispanic) (5.59%), Two+ (Non-Hispanic) (4.12%), and White (Hispanic) (1.4%)."
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The population of "Hispanics" other than White (Hispanic) that is given on that page is N/A.
To add to that information about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, here's some data regarding the racial/ethnic makeup of Allegheny County, the country where Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is located:
Deletehttps://datausa.io/profile/geo/allegheny-county-pa/
"Measure Allegheny
Percent White 79.1
Percent Black 13.5
Percent Asian/Pacific Islander 4.6
Percent Hispanic 2.5"...