Someone Shot Into Kamala Harris’ Arizona Campaign Office

Rosalyn Morris
AfroSapiophile
Published in
4 min readSep 26, 2024

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Photo by Олег Мороз on Unsplash

Sometime after midnight, early in the hours of Monday morning, someone shot into Kamala Harris’ campaign office in Tempe, Arizona. This is ahead of her planned visit to the state this Friday where she plans to visit the border with Mexico. The office is also used by the state Democratic party and its candidates running for the House and Senate.

Like a lot of the political violence against Democratic politicians, you won’t hear much about this in the news. The mainstream media is failing us.

And don’t think for a second, that just because they shot through glass windows and doors, this isn’t political violence or an attack on democracy. I’m from Mississippi where the ghosts from racial violence of the past, and memories of assassinated leaders like Medgar Evers, or James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and Emmett Till still haunt us. We live in the shadow. Before they were murdered for their civic and political beliefs, men like Martin Luther King Jr. faced death threats and the bombing of their own homes. Hopefully, we’ve all seen the images of crosses burning in the front yards of those who the KKK, and other white supremacists, wanted to intimidate or run off. Sometimes, they made good on these threats. My grandmother’s family lost land in Yazoo, Mississippi, when it was set on fire, after her older sister…

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