Get up to speed with the Democrat frontrunner – who officiated the first gay wedding in California and won a huge victory when she went to war with the mortgage companies
was named as Joe Biden’s running mate in August 2020, Donald Trump said she was “totally unlikable” and a communist; he twice called her “this monster”. While “monster” is a dehumanising term, the pronoun flags what seems to me to be a racist subtext: not “aBut he also strategically mispronounced her name, elongating the middle “A” to make it sound more foreign. It’s important, therefore, not to get it wrong by accident. It doesn’t rhyme with Pamela; it doesn’t sound like Tony Soprano’s wife.
and she made a policy of not pushing for jail time. She wrote of drug prosecutions: “The cases were as easy to prove as they were tragic to charge. In the rush to clean up the streets, we were criminalising a public health crisis.”. “It is truly appalling,” she wrote in The Truths We Hold. “It’s one thing to say that Black lives matter. But awareness and solidarity aren’t enough. We need to accept hard truths about the systemic racism that has allowed this to happen.
But her racial identity is also heavily policed. The radio host Mark Levin said: “Kamala Harris is not an African American, she is Indian and Jamaican. Jamaica’s part of the Caribbean. India is out there near China. I only point that out because if you dare raise that, you’re attacked, but the truth is she’s not, and so I just wanted to make that clear.”
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