United States Vice President Kamala Harris is making a bid for the Oval Office, replacing President Joe Biden to square off against Republican Donald Trump. She may become the first woman and second racialized person to become U.S. president.
It won’t be an easy road. Hopefully Harris possesses, in the words conveyed to me by the late New Democratic Party leader Alexa McDonough, the “skin of a rhinoceros” to withstand the deluge of negative attack ads and abuse she’s going to face and is already confronting.
The gloves, in fact, are off, with Harris being subjected to both sexism and racism. She has been called a DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) candidate, the implication being she’s unqualified to be president. There have also been insinuations that she has “slept her way to the top,” a classic way to undermine the accomplishments of successful women.
