The Harris for President campaign's lead graphic designer debuted the campaign's new logo design this week, receiving millions of impressions and praise at X for the 24-hour rebrand.
But by the same token, the Brooklyn-based designer has a long history of inciting political violence and crime.
“[M]and my designers did. [T]his is crazy” wrote Ana Cherée Rice, 32, on Monday. Accompanying the post was the campaign's new official logo declaring “Harris for President” in blue and red text.
The rice ones professional social networking pages list their pronouns and their interest in diversity, inclusion and equity. But a scratch behind his public X profile”@theanarice”, where he regularly promotes his work, shows support for extreme political violence, sympathy for communism and even hatred for the Democrats he works for.
As violent, deadly BLM-Antifa riots and arson attacks gripped Minneapolis in late May 2020 following the death of George Floyd, Rice tweeted at the time, demanding her comrades “burn all this shit.”
The next day, May 29, she was at a riot in New York City where she was arrested by the NYPD.
A burned body was found in one of the businesses that was set on fire in Minneapolis.
Rice repeatedly called for arson attacks and violence in 2020 as unrest spread to different cities and states.
In June 2020, Rice posted: “[B]urn that sh— down, Atlanta.”
And like Kenosha, Wisc. was hit by deadly political violence in August following the police shooting of knifeman Jacob Blake, Rice urged: “[B]urne all this shit, kenosha.”
Rice too appeared to threaten armed violence. “[I] he needs a gun because I'm not playing with you,” Rice he tweeted on August 23, 2020.
On August 26, Rice's quote retweeted one of his earlier calls for arson attacks, adding: “[A]win And one more time. And one more time.“
In September 2020, Rice began urging rioters to loot. In one post, he talked about wanting to get in on the action steal clothes. In April 2021, responding to a tweet that read, “Riots work,” Rice added, “and looting.”
Despite doing graphic design work for Apple, Lululemon, Chase and other corporate clients, Rice stated in March 2023: “[I] hate capitalism.” Months later, he followed up the sentiment with a post that read: “[I] I will never – and you will never – have a problem with looting.”
Rice again called for more violence last year after the death of Jordan Neely on a subway at the Broadway-Lafayette Street station. Neely, who was acting erratically on the train, died after being laid down by an ex-Marine on the train.
“[W]I should probably burn all this shit,” Rice wrote on May 4, 2023.
Ironically, Rice's violent extremist posts mildly echo what her future boss, Kamala Harris, suggested about the riots at the time.
In a June 18, 2020, interview with Stephen Colbert about the ongoing violent unrest in the United States, Harris smiled and said, “They're not going to let up, and they shouldn't.” Weeks before that, Harris infamously helped raise bail for violent riot suspects in Minnesota. Shawn Michael Tillman, one of the beneficiaries of the Minnesota Freedom Fund, later murdered a man after the group was rescued.
In July 2020, when the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in downtown Portland, Ore., was besieged nightly by Antifa rioters who tried to burn it down, Harris went on MSNBC to demand that then-President Trump immediately withdraw federal law enforcement from protecting the courthouse. .
In addition to posts advocating left-wing political violence, Rice frequently posted about her hatred of the NYPD. “F— the nypd“, Rice published often in angry rants. “[B]Between calling the police on black people…I'm angry. a lot,” Rice posted in 2018. But in September 2019, she urged people to calls the police on a “Jewish club” outside his apartment to play loud music.
Rice had joined Joe Biden's campaign for president as a full-time design chief in June before stepping into the same role for Harris' presidential campaign. The rice was personally praised by Biden's deputy campaign manager this week for his work to quickly rebrand the website.
However, her posts at the time suggest she was less than excited to work for Biden. “[I] I was invited to an interview to design for the president and now I'm designing for the president,” Rice wrote on June 13more than a month before Biden dropped out of the presidential campaign.
Responding to a person who asked if he was referring to Biden, he wrote “yeah, that one,” followed by a crying emoji.