Malcolm Kenyatta in 2022 PA Senate race
On Civil Rights:
BLM has to include Black queer folks & Black trans folks
He has worked hard to make sure that all Black lives are being considered in the phrase Black Lives Matter. "That also has to include Black queer folks and Black trans folks and Black disabled folks, and so there
have been multiple instances of violence against the Black trans community where I've said to the Black Caucus, hey let's remember this is our issue too."
Source: LGBTQ Nation News on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Jun 28, 2020
On Crime:
We really do need radical reform to policing
Kenyatta supports the need to completely reimagine public safety in America. "We really do need radical reform to policing and radical systems reform. We have to ask the question, what are the police protecting? What they're protecting are really
these systems of discrimination.""We can shift resources, which we should and we're doing. We can change policies, which we should and we're doing, but ultimately we have to shift our systems, and that is a harder task."
Source: LGBTQ Nation News on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Jun 28, 2020
On Government Reform:
Opposed law making voting process less accessible
Kenyatta has shamed Republican lawmakers for backing legislation that he says will "intimate" people from exercising their right to vote. "This actually should not be a contentious issue," Kenyatta said. "It should be a bipartisan issue to allow every
Pennsylvanian to have access to their fundamental right to vote. But what this amendment does is make the process inaccessible for Pennsylvanians. And unfortunately, it has been driven by national politics."
Source: Pink News (LGBT UK) on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Sep 7, 2020
On Jobs:
We need to value service industry employees
About service industry employees: "We've never, never valued those jobs and those people in the way that we should and certainly not in line with the value that they provide to our economy and to our cities,"
Kenyatta told me. "We're seeing it a little bit more as we've been shut down, we've depended on the folks who show up at the grocery store and who care for people."
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
May 25, 2020
On Principles & Values:
Liberty and justice not currently attainable for all
Liberty and justice for all, Kenyatta said, is not currently attainable for all communities. "As somebody who inhabits all of these intersections, growing up in an incredibly poor neighborhood to a working poor family, as one of only two openly
LGBTQ members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the only one that's a person of color, I see all the different ways that frankly our systems are broken."
Source: LGBTQ Nation News on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Jun 28, 2020
On Tax Reform:
Require online retailers to collect & remit local sales tax
Two Pennsylvania state representatives are proposing a change to the state's online sales tax law to level the playing field between local businesses and online retailers like Amazon. "Purchases from online retailers that do not collect or remit local
sales tax are detrimental to companies in our areas that employ our local employees, pay our local taxes, and ultimately fuel our local economies," Kenyatta said. "This tax loophole comes at the peril of our commonwealth's most populous counties."
Source: NorthCentralPA.com on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Jul 24, 2020
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