Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed urged a group of young boys to “have conversations with all your neighbors” about the upcoming elections in a video he released Tuesday on social media.
“All our kids are all our kids,” El-Sayed wrote in the video’s caption.
The Democratic candidate joined the boys, many of whom wore “Youth for Abdul” shirts, on a soccer field and explained how decisions made in Washington would affect their futures.
“My whole job is to go to Washington, D.C., to try and make laws that are better for you,” he told the boys. “That’s the whole point. So you have better schools, so that you can breathe cleaner air, you can drink cleaner water, so we don’t go send our money to kill other people instead of keeping it here, to protect you and give you healthcare, to make sure your parents have good jobs, that they have protections from a union.”
“The world that we’re building right now is the world you’re going to live in a lot longer,” he continued, adding, “When you are going out having conversations with all your neighbors and talking about elections and voting, what you’re asking them to do is build a future that’s better for you guys.”
El-Sayed told the children that he wanted them to “fight for their future” and promised he would do the same if elected to the Senate in November.
Some social media users objected to El-Sayed’s “all our kids” caption, interpreting it as suggesting that children belong collectively to the broader community, and ripped the Democrat for the lack of diversity in the video.
El-Sayed’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
The caption El-Sayed used for the post is similar to a quote from civil rights activist James Baldwin, who wrote in The Nation in 1980, “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” Baldwin espoused many socialist ideals and argued for socialism to be implemented in the United States.
El-Sayed has attempted to distance himself from socialism throughout his Senate campaign, telling The Daily Wire in February, “I’m a scientist. I’m not a socialist.”
Yet many of El-Sayed’s positions are indistinguishable from socialist ideals, and he has campaigned with democratic socialists, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). He has also joined forces with Marxist streamer Hasan Piker, whom he refuses to disavow even after Piker made threatening comments warning pro-Israel Jews to stop supporting the country before somebody “takes action” against them.
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