1) No byline, “Kamala Harris worried Democrats will replace Joe Biden with white candidate; Vice president’s team say it would be ‘offensive’ to black voters if she were ignored,” The Telegraph, July 1, 2024 (3:56 pm);
Harris lost me in the prmary debate where she ambushed Joe Biden on racial busing, greatly distorting tge historical context.
Now she has played tge race card, revealing again the inherent racism and fatal flaws in the “identity politics” of the current Democratic Party.
Harris, despite a lackluster candidate in the 2020 Democratic primaries, was picked by Joe Biden to be his running mate to placate Jim Clyburn and the African American minority in the party, because she was black.
Lloyd Austin appears to have been chosen as Defense Secretary, despite recent service in the military requiring a waiver under the law prohibiting military officers from serving as Defense chief if they been on active dut in the last seven years, because he was black.
Biden named Ketanji Brown Jackson, who may well have been the most qualified person for the position, to the Supreme Court because he had promised Jim Clyburn, who was largely responsible for his winning the Democratic nomination, that as president he would name a black woman to the Court.
Harris has demonstrated that being black doesn’t mean you’re necessarily the best person for the position.
Now she has played the race card in a most blatant and unforgivable manner.
The Democrats will not win in November unless they put aside their “identity politics” and what is in effect anti-white racism, and return to a policy of naming officials, including vice-presidential and presidential candidates, on the basis of merit and qualifications, without regard to race. In zmartin Luther King’s words, “on the basis if their character and not the color of their skin”.