{"id":23425,"date":"2021-07-08T17:33:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T21:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=23425"},"modified":"2021-07-08T17:34:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T21:34:50","slug":"23425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/08\/23425\/","title":{"rendered":"BET News Presents &#8220;State of Our Union: Vice President Kamala Harris&#8221; Hosted by Soledad O&#8217;Brien, Premiering Friday, July 9 @ 8PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23426\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BET-News-16-9-Generic-v1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BET-News-16-9-Generic-v1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BET-News-16-9-Generic-v1-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>BET News presents &#8220;<strong><em>State of Our Union: Vice President Kamala Harris<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; hosted by Soledad O&#8217;Brien &#8211; an exclusive half-hour primetime news special filmed at the White House featuring a one-on-one conversation between O&#8217;Brien and Vice President Harris. The interview focuses on a range of substantive issues impacting the Black community including vaccine hesitancy and access, economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, police reform, and voting rights. &#8220;State of Our Union: Vice President Kamala Harris&#8221; premieres Friday, July 9 @ 8PM on BET.<\/p>\n<p>Select quotes from special &#8220;<em>State of Our Union: Vice President Kamala Harris<\/em>&#8220;:<\/p><div id=\"morty-2475144500\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Vice President on vaccine hesitancy: &#8220;One in three Black people in America know somebody who has died from this disease. And here&#8217;s the other point that I will make, virtually everyone who is in a hospital right now because of COVID-19 is unvaccinated. Virtually everyone who has died from COVID-19 was unvaccinated. So, the thing that I just want to remind folks of is that you have the power. Don&#8217;t let anybody take your power from you. You have the power to save your life. You have the power to make a decision about what happens to your body. Don&#8217;t let people dupe you into thinking that this thing is not going to help you, it will help you. And it will save your life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President on the administration&#8217;s plan to fight crime and reform police departments: &#8220;We should not be offered and certainly not accept a false choice. Like when we&#8217;re talking about gun violence, we need to deal with that. So as an administration, we&#8217;re saying, for example, the firearms dealers that those who are violating the law, there needs to be a consequence for that. 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