California Senator Kamala Harris appears to be the front runner for Joe Biden’s vice-presidential nomination.
As a black woman, she could bolster the ticket’s appeal to African American voters.
And as a prosecutor and California attorney general, she could appeal to suburban voters concerned about law and order.
But that has Harris straddling a divide among Democrats, and her own record as a harsh prosecutor, including repeated refusals to investigate the shootings of black men by police, could send some core liberals fleeing
While San Francisco has a reputation as laid-back and lax on crime, Harris was anything but that when she was elected the city’s district attorney in 2004.
When Harris took over she launched a crackdown on drug dealers and racked up over 1,900 convictions in six years for low-level marijuana possession.
Many of those she jailed were young black men never accused of any violent crime, the very thing the “Black Lives Matter” movement now protests.
Harris also launched a campaign to crack down on school truancy, a crime often enforced against poor and black students. Seven parents were arrested.
Her record didn’t improve when she was elected California attorney general.
In 2019 The Los Angeles Times reported “Harris, the state’s first black attorney general, steered clear of the legislative brawls over bills on policing, including what became a groundbreaking law to curb racial profiling. Harris also rejected pleas by civil rights activists to investigate deadly police shootings of young black men in Los Angeles and San Francisco.”
“She is maybe a modest reformer, and that’s fine,” Anne Weills, an Oakland civil rights attorney told the Times. “But I don’t think that means she is particularly progressive. She doesn’t look at the big picture about how to make structural change.”
As attorney general, Harris refused to look into accused police brutality against two black men.
“Community activists urged Harris to investigate two high-profile police shootings in California — Ezell Ford’s death in Los Angeles in 2014 and the 2015 killing of Mario Woods in San Francisco — but she demurred, saying she lacked legal grounds to overrule local prosecutors,” the Times reported.
“I wouldn’t even say disappointed is a strong enough word for how we felt about how she did as attorney general,” Kim McGill, an organizer with the Youth Justice Coalition, told the Times.
Biden’s gamble may appeal to some voters but could open a line of attack by Trump’s black supporters.
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Michael Brigham
Michael Brigham has written for American Action News since the summer of 2019. His areas of expertise include foreign affairs, government, and politics, but regardless of the subject matter, he has a nose and an insatiable appetite for news. In his free time, he enjoys reading nonfiction, watching a mix of comedies and true crime documentaries, and spending time away from the swamp hiking in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
Krapola’s real problem is that she is a SCUMBAG socialist willing to play the race card when it benefits her, just as MOST Blacks do. She is conceited, arrogant, egotistical, and overly ambitious.
She’s only half-black, isn’t she? I guess Willie Brown would know after all, she let him boink her a few times so she could climb the political ladder. What a clever piglet!
She is not Black at all. She is Jamaican and Indian.
The writer of this artlcle forgot her aggression against the 2nd amendment. But that will be bad for SHOTGUN JOE.
Listen IF the media can so completely and thoroughly ignore all the corrupt and stupidity and letchery of Biden, he can get away with anything.
Just imagine what it will take for the liberal mind, focused on getting FREE stuff, to figure out that they are DESTROYING AMERICA.
Best stay as little old willie brown’s side kick or hooker. Heard that she’s quite good at it. Got her the DA office in CA, didn’t it?
Kamala Harris has an even bigger problem with her family’s history in the Caribbean slave trade. They owned and operated a large sugar plantation in Jamaica, which included black slaves to operate the labor intensive business.
Whether they were black slaves from Africa or Irish indentured servants treated like slaves, her father confirmed that his family were slave traders or owners, or users in Jamaica. If BLM means all blacks, she has an ancient family history of doing wrong, and a recent history of doing wrong in CA. She definitely has some SPLAININ’ to do. Maybe Biden will look at the content of her character, and ignore the color of her skin. Like BO she gets her blackness from her father, not her mother, if it matters to anyone.
Perfect choice, I couldn’t have handpicked a better person, her act is not appealing even for her own side but hey the rule is never pick anyone that will outshine you and that is a tall task for someone like Biden but I think he just nailed it!
She was also deeply involved in illegal tactics in defending Planned Parenthood for selling baby parts and suing the under cover agents that discovered this atrocious action.
Chlamydia Roundheels Callous Knees Harris isn’t black.
But she is a lying America hating communist dimoKKKrat scumbag, so I guess that makes up for it.
Great ticket corrupted dementia Ukraine and China President and Ho Ho with Jamaican history of slaves working elites. Plus I did not hear anything coherent coming for her lollipop leaking mouth, except modern lynching (Smollett) and I believe (Ford). Where is believe on Sleepy Joe? In a boonies.
Maybe groper joe wants this Indian -Islander for a running mate because sne slept ner way up the Ladder an he figures on getting a little before he kicks the bucket or his “So Called” Supporters take him out with Article 25 on his mental Issues
The problem with that is,,,she becomes President.
The communist democrat party is in a world of S**T! They have nobody to run for president but “Sleepy Joe”! If that wasn’t bad enough they must come up with an electable team. If sleepy Joe can pull off the win of a century it would be the biggest voter fraud ever been arranged. But the communist dems know that “IF” they could get him elected their only hope is to have someone to step right into office with in the first 90 days. That person is not the Jamaican Whore! It is the transvestite Mike Obama! Prepare! This announcement will come in the next 30 days or less.
The creature slept her way up to eventually grabbed the Senatorial seat. She was little Willie Brown’s entertainment. She hadn’t ever fought for justice in Ca for anyone, not blacks, not white, not Asians. She is only half black. And an insult to my Indian friends and definitely a gigantic insult to all women who have had to fought their way up in the corporate world to earn their place with dignity and self-respect.
0% Black. 1/2 Jamaican.
Why is there so much hatred involved in this society that there has to be a “black lives matter”? I was brought up by God-fearing Christians that taught me that ALL LIVES MATTER, not JUST black lives or red lives or yellow lives or white lives; ALL LIVES! When I see that mentioned, I think to myself, isn’t that name (black lives matter) the embodiment of racism? Yes, this country HAD a history of discrimination against black people, and it was DESPICABLE to treat a fellow human being like he was “property” or even worse, like he was something NOT human, LESS THAN human. But, that was 60 or more years ago; when does it stop? Is what is happening now with the “blm” the big “get even”; black people won’t be happy until THEY are the RACISTS and whites are the “outcasts”? Maybe if we didn’t have a BIASED media only telling HALF of the story, especially when it comes to anything to do with Donald Trump, there wouldn’t be nearly as many problems as there are now. Seems to me the media is standing next to the gun powder with a “lighted match”, and they are just about ready to light the fuse. How can one section of people have so much sheer HATRED for one man as the left does for Donald Trump? I guess I just don’t get it; Trump has done more for black people than any other president (with the exception of Abraham Lincoln, of course) has, yet blacks still despise him. Democrats have held blacks down for generations, yet the black community still favor democrats overwhelmingly. Again, I just don’t understand. Oh well, that’s my take. What say you?
Good. Plaster that record all over the airwaves. Doubtful it would turn any BLM nuts to Trump but if enough of them stay home in disgust on election day that is just as good.
I’d be surprised if Chuckie allows this sorry possibility. Of all the black women in this nation with scruples, decency, honesty and a high sense of morality, the U.S. Senate might have someone else in mind. It’s important because this choice is part of the strategy. When (not if) Hiden-Biden resigns for reasons of health, this choice will be President of the United States.
I don’t know why they keep calling her a black woman her dad is from Jamaica and her mom is from India so she’s not black she’s a mutt.