Vice President Kamala Harris, The Democratic Party, The Intersection of Race and Gender and the Politics of White, Right Wing Resentment!

Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
The Polis
Published in
8 min readJul 30, 2024

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Stephanie Scarborough Associated Press

It would be an understatement to say that Kamala Harris has been the subject of intense gossip since July 2020, when President Joe Biden selected her as his running mate. Indeed, there has been no dearth of commentary about Harris and her role as vice president. Whether it be from the political left, right, or center, Harris is often the subject of fierce discussion.

In fact, one would be hard-pressed to think of a vice president in recent memory who has been placed under such a political microscope. It seems that Harris can hardly sneeze without someone, somewhere analyzing or dissecting her every move. Oh, by the way, let’s not get started on how some of her critics attack her supposed “strange” laugh!

Now that Harris has been all but chosen as the 2024 democratic presidential nominee, acerbic, and in many cases obscene, attacks from the right have begun. The Trump campaign, still shell-shocked from sudden democratic momentum, stated, “Kamala Harris is just as weak, failed, and incompetent as Joe Biden — and she’s also dangerously liberal. Not only does Kamala need to defend her support of Joe Biden’s failed agenda over the past four years, she also needs to answer for her own terrible…

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
The Polis

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.