People For Member,
The next big fight to defend a highly qualified woman of color nominee from the deep-pocketed right-wing smear machine is here. The Far Right is gearing up for a wave of baseless attacks against Kristen Clarke, President Biden’s STELLAR nominee to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
Clarke would be the first ever Black woman to head the Civil Rights Division and only the second Black person to do so, after former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick who was Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights during the Clinton administration.
The Right knows how effective Clarke will be at championing Americans’ civil rights and voting rights at the DOJ, so they’re ready to pull out all the stops to try to sink her nomination.
That’s why we’re making Her Fight Our Fight. And as the first step in our campaign to defend Clarke and push back against the Right’s attacks, we’ve just produced an incredibly powerful ad that we plan to run both on TV and online in Maine, Alaska, and the other states of key U.S. senators in this fight.
Our new ad – the latest in a series of ads being produced by People For’s #HerFightOurFight video lab – tells just one of the many stories of Kristen Clarke’s heroism on behalf of Americans’ rights, in which she took on a powerful corporation to stop gender discrimination against its women employees – and won.
People For’s #HerFightOurFight campaign was created to address the urgency of standing up to the Far Right’s constant attacks against women of color public officials and nominees. For decades, we’ve seen unsubstantiated smears and over-the-top rhetoric aimed at women of color that have too often resulted in Americans being denied wonderful public servants who were dedicated to fighting on their behalf.
Under President Clinton, Lani Guinier was the first Black woman nominated to the position that Kristen Clarke is now being considered for … but her nomination was sunk by a smear campaign that distorted her writings. Other women of color officials from Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders under Bill Clinton to Shirley Sherrod, the Georgia Director of Rural Development for the Department of Agriculture under President Obama, lost their jobs due to similar smear campaigns.
With President Biden nominating the most diverse executive branch and judicial nominees ever, as well as his stated commitment to nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court, we knew we had to be ready.
And now, with the nomination of Kristen Clarke to head the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division moving in the Senate, we’re on the verge of perhaps the biggest fight of this campaign so far.
We’re already organizing grassroots support for Clarke’s confirmation and planning more ads for her and our other #HerFightOurFight campaign nominees – including some of President Biden’s judicial nominees and potential members of his Supreme Court short list.
But we need to be able to run our hard-hitting new ad everywhere we need to, for as long as we need to. And that’s where you come in.
Thank you for all you do and for continuing the fight to make sure the Far Right doesn’t deny the American people the champions they deserve in key government positions.
Onward,
Ben Jealous, President
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