Melat Kiros Vows to Fight for ‘Systemic Change,’ Claims She Comes from Long Generation of ‘Proud Black Socialists’
Socialist congressional candidate Melat Kiros claimed she comes from a long generation of “proud black socialists,” defending the political ideology and vowing that she will fight for “systemic” change.
“Socialism to me is the roads that we drive on, the schools we send our kids to, the fire stations we call on when we’re in crisis,” Kiros, who defeated 15-term Democrat Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s First Congressional District primary over the summer, said during an interview with Higher Heights Vice President of Programs Eboni Taylor.
Socialism, Kiros continued, is also “about fighting for extending that kind of security and dignity to our healthcare, to our workplaces, to our housing, and making sure that in the wealthiest, most powerful country on earth, that we have access to those basic dignities.”
She then claimed to have come from a “long generation of proud, proud black socialists and radicals and fighters that have been naming the fact that you know, racial justice and economic justice are inevitably intertwined.”
“And our responsibility is to hold these institutions accountable to respect our dignity and our basic rights, and in order for those things to change, you know, these piecemeal efforts aren’t going to be enough,” she said, waning that she is going to “proudly” fight for what she described as “serious systemic changes.”
Kiros, whose platform includes a Trans Bill of Rights, also said during an interview on PBS’s Firing Line with Margaret Hoover that socialism has delivered on the ideas outlined in the founding documents of the United States. She actually said that there is “nothing more American” than socialism.
“I don’t think there’s anything more American than subscribing to an economic philosophy that, as the evidence shows, is the only one that’s actually capable of delivering things like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” Kiros said. “I really can’t.”
Kiros also asserted that socialism has proven to deliver on the values of the Declaration of Independence more than capitalism.
“You know, when we talk about capitalism, you know, one of the things that folks talk about with capitalism as a theory is that it’s responsible for you know delivering people out of poverty here in the U.S.,” she said, pointing instead to “social safety programs.”
Notably, Kiros also equates the “freedom” to stop the heartbeat of an unborn child to “economic freedom,” making abortion a key part of her socialist platform and demanding that the ability to murder an unborn child is guaranteed.
“It’s not enough to talk about protecting reproductive freedom,” her platform reads, using leftist jargon of “reproductive freedom” as a euphemism for the murder of babies.
“We need to guarantee it,” she continues, adding that “reproductive freedom is also economic freedom.”
“It is the freedom to decide when and whether to start a family, to stay in the workforce, to plan a future. No one should have their body, their future, or their freedom controlled by politicians. It’s time we make reproductive freedom a constitutional right,” she contends.
The socialist’s platform does not stop with murdering unborn children, as “reproductive freedom,” in her world, also includes “gender-affirming care” — genital mutilation surgery, hormone therapy, and puberty blockers used to “affirm” the delusions of those suffering with gender dysmorphia.
Kiros faces off against Republican Christy Peterson in November.
