When they questioned Vice President Kamala Harris ‘ veracity, black voters shocked MSNBC host Alex Wagner.
” The first time I actually heard the name Kamala Harris”, said a woman named Dr. Alfie Goodwin, “it was in connection to locking up kids for truancy”.
” I really did n’t understand how this person claims to be a black woman, but she keeps locking up black women and black men and divorcing families,” she said.
In her campaign for governor, Harris made her campaign reprisals against absenteeism as a local attorney in San Francisco a star angle to voters. When she was inaugurated following her primary nationwide vote, Harris made apparent,” We are putting families on see. We will work to make sure you are subject to the full power and effects of the law if you violate your obligations to your children.
In her first presidential campaign, Harris faced criticism for her violent truancy initiatives in 2019.
Harris ‘ support led to the later statewide expansion of the truancy policy, which was later cited as” an important issue,” according to Vox, which Harris received just weeks after she announced her presidential primary campaign. As criminal justice reform has become more popular, especially among Liberals, in the midst of Black Lives Matter, policies that may have seemed satisfactory or even commendable a decade ago are now more questioned.
Harris may then work overtime to appeal to black citizens throughout her group’s 2020 presidential primary, for reasons some voters may recite on MSNBC Tuesday evening.
” When she was sworn into the Senate, it was as the first American Indian”, Goodwin said, met with a” Thank you”! from a local viewer. ” It’s great! We do n’t care”, Goodwin added, with MSNBC cutting to another voter named Valerie Martin who said,” We all know she’s not black”!
” This know that”, Martin said. ” We are all apparent of that”.
” But my level of view”, she added, is” she’s already been there. She’s in business best now”.
In 2020, black citizens had resisted calling Harris home because she was Caribbean and Indian rather than an African American. The Washington Post , reported , in 2019 on left-wing bloggers who explained her heritage as the reason behind black opposition to backing a Harris election.
One activist named Antonio Moore said on his radio show,” You do n’t voluntarily immigrate into a community that is supposedly segregated, and then claim the struggles of people who have been here chained to chattel slavery for multiple generations.” Kapala Harris claims to have no “black agenda.”
According to the Post, Moore is a head of a small but vocal movement called British Descendants of Slavery, or ADOS, which has been enraging some democratic black leaders by calling for a reshaping of black personality that replaces body color with traditional lineage as the defining characteristic. ” Heirs of British prisoners, they say, should not be seen as piece of broader parties like’ people of color’ or ‘ minorities,’ because their factual situation is completely different”.
After making similar remarks at a conference of the National Association of Black Journalists ( NABJ) this summer, Trump received press criticism.
Trump said in Chicago,” I did n’t know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black. She now wants to be known as black.” ” Is she American or is she dark”?
The Harris plan has allegedly abused the most prejudiced identity politics ‘ impulses to gin up phony outrage against Trump, according to The Federalist. In August, the Democrat’s plan ridiculed a Trump stop in the Detroit suburb of Howell, Michigan, a city in a consistently dark county , surrounded , by orange votes that Republicans naturally hope to turn.
Trump’s event on” crime and safety”, however,  , according , to the Harris campaign, was n’t just a “dog whistle” from the Republican, but a “bullhorn”.
Alyssa Bradley, the Harris campaign’s Michigan communications director, condemned Trump for” choosing to rally in a town that was historically known as ‘ the KKK capital of Michigan.'” A reporter questioned Trump about the charge of white supremacy, citing the presence of area extremists at the tail end of the event. The former president responded by posing a query for the reporter.
” Who was here in 2021″? Trump said.
” Joe Biden”, she answered.
” Thank you”, Trump responded before walking off.
Trump doubled his share of the black vote from , 6 percent , to , enter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2020″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>12 percent , in the last election, and some polls suggest the Republican president could do so again this year.