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Shari Dunn

Kamala Harris is being ‘competency-checked,’ a gauntlet every Black woman in the workplace has to run

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Despite warnings from his own party, former president Donald Trump continues to push the narrative that Kamala Harris is unqualified, calling her “grossly incompetent” and very low-IQ.” He has even compared her unfavorably to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, claiming, “She’s worse than Biden, and she’s actually not as smart.” Trump dismisses his opponent’s success in the race by suggesting she is only doing well because “she’s a woman, and she represents certain groups of people.”

What Vice President Harris is facing is something I call competency checking—and it's familiar to many Black professionals in the workplace.

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