Vice President Harris’s ascent demonstrates the absurdity of believing that minorities are oppressed in America.
Four years ago, Joe Biden, then the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for the 2020 presidential election, promised to select a black woman as his running mate. He settled on Kamala Harris, a senator from California and the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants. “Little black and brown girls, who so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities, but today, today just maybe, they’re seeing themselves for the first time in a new way, as the stuff of president and vice presidents,” Biden said then.
Now, Harris has supplanted Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket after the president’s stunning withdrawal. Notably, however, Biden’s endorsement of Harris last month made no mention of her race, ethnicity, or gender. Some Democrats do want to make Harris’s racial and ethnic background the focus of her 2024 presidential campaign. By and large, these haven’t been top-ranking party officials, but rather progressive racial activists—particularly black and white women.
