Op-Ed: Kamala Harris' vice presidential run is a campaign to be America's second Black president (via latimesopinion)
Make no mistake, Kamala Harris, not Joe Biden, is on the Democratic ticket as the face of the leadership the country is demanding now. Her vice presidential candidacy, in essence, is a bid to become America’s second Black president.
Harris also clearly understands her connection to Black Lives Matter and other grassroots racial justice movements that have been pushing the country toward antiracism for the last four months with historic success. But sometimes I worry; is Harris up to this job? She is not Obama, but she shares traits with him, traits common to the Black professional class that, frankly, have hampered as much as helped progress in the last couple of generations.
Harris has the goods a presidential candidate needs: telegenic looks, core unflappability and, as recently displayed, oratorical charisma. But she is also primed to undo the racial effacement that has been the price of integration. It helps that she is temperamentally less cautious than Obama: She can be caustic, as we saw when sheAtty. Gen. William Barr during a Senate hearing last year, and Biden himself during the Democratic prirmary debates.
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