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Why The Racism Against Kamala Harris Starts With Her Name

Ezinne Ukoha
6 min readAug 17, 2020

Not long after the long-awaited announcement of the heralded selection of former presidential candidate, Senator Kamala Harris, as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s official running mate, there was a deluge of supportive statements, and less favorable reactions from both sides.

Donald Trump held his low-energy, messy news briefing, minutes after the confirmation of the Biden/Harris ticket, and his response to the breaking news was exactly what you would expect from a bullish, sexist, racist oaf, who is particularly vile in his dealings with women of color, who dare to call out his bullshit.

Remember this is the dude who attacked Yamiche Alcindor, the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour, merely hours after the 2018 mid-term elections, and during Trump’s combative press conference, where he cruelly accused a Black woman of being “racist” after she asked the Racist-in-Chief about his racism.

While campaigning on behalf of Senator Ted Cruz in Texas, Trump boastfully declared he was a “nationalist” to the…

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