Yesterday news broke that Democratic candidate Joe Biden had picked Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate and potential VP of ‘Merica. My feelings were admittedly mixed, because as I stated on my podcast, her prosecutorial record was in some ways reprehensible, as were some of her policies (Google her treatment of truants’ parents). I did not think she would win the democratic nomination, because I knew she would be criticized for her record. I did not think she would go a step further and go on a nationally syndicated radio show and state that she listened to 2pac while she was in college in the 80s, which was an absolute no-no. With that said, its time to face our current reality, this might be the best that we have and we have to push forward.
Biden and Harris have voted for horrible legislation, and aren’t the poster children for all things right in Merica. We have to realize that they aren’t the poster child for all that is wrong either (see Trump for that). The “anybody but Trump” movement is proving that we are at a pivotal place as a nation. After talking to Le Rib yesterday, I realized an important point that I had been neglecting. Kamala Harris may be many things, good, bad and indifferent, but she’s still a human. She is capable of change and of righting her perceived wrongs. She definitely wasn’t the worst of the candidates in the race for the democratic nomination, and she has addressed many of her past policy shortcomings directly. She was also one of the few candidates who had a viable plan to help disabled Mericans. Its quite possible that this may be her moment to change her narrative.
She is a soror of AKA, an HBCU alumna, a smart attorney and hopefully a woman on a mission to prove her doubters (myself included) wrong. She has the opportunity to pick up where Shirley Chisholm could have went, and to inspire the nation’s young women to go where they couldn’t relate to Hillary Clinton being. If Biden takes ill, Harris becomes president of the United States, and that would be a milestone in the country’s history. She just might effectuate policy changes, hell she might even free BMF (lmao, but really). Regardless of what I think she might do, she is definitely going to draw support from any number of the demographics that identify and relate to her.
This all assumes that the dems actually win the election, and 45 actually leaves office without putting up a fight. If these things hold true, and we do in fact get Kamala Harris as VP of Merica, she will have the voice and platform to hold Biden and herself accountable to Black Merica. She can show the world the new her, and win over a lot of her critics. Human beings can evolve, and I hope this can be her evolution.
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