Erica Lee Carter on the DNC: I Certainly Teared Up, I Had To Be There for Myself and My Mother

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
SHARPTON: “Now back to the weight of this moment, ms. Carter. The vice president seldom talks about her race or ethnicity. The history she’s already made the history she could make a November. But as you watched her make history Thursday night , history that your late mother a trailblazing black woman, did not live to see, what goes through your mind?”

Lee Carter: “I certainly teared up. I was in the united center. I had to be there for myself, and my mother knowing that my mother always believed that the art bent toward justice and seeing women who have been the backbone of the Democratic Party rise to be — she did see her being vice president which made her so proud and the leadership she showed. My mother worked with her. And she always held in her heart that Kamala Harris would go further. So whether she was there directly in person, I felt her and I felt that she is lifting us up in this moment. Unlike Michelle Obama said, calling on all of us to do something, including myself.”