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#DemsSoWhite? Kamala Harris' Exit Raises Hard Questions About Race And Power
NPR ^ | Decembee 5, 2019 | Asma Khalid

Posted on 12/06/2019 1:03:54 AM PST by C19fan

When news broke that California Sen. Kamala Harris was dropping out of the presidential race on Tuesday, some fellow Democratic candidates quickly began ringing alarm bells. Harris was the only nonwhite candidate to have qualified for the next presidential debate on Dec. 19. "What we're staring at is a DNC debate stage in a few days with no people of color on it, that does not reflect the diversity of our party or our country," former Housing Secretary Julián Castro said. "We need to do better than that." Sen. Cory Booker tweeted: "There are more billionaires than Black people who've made the December debate stage — that's a problem." And using hashtags #DemsSoWhite and #DebateSoWhite, people criticized the Democratic National Committee for its qualification criteria that resulted in what will very likely be an all-white stage later this month.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; potus; race
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I think a lot of voters of color feel particularly targeted by Trump and feel that white candidates might be safer to take him on.

Blame racist whitey for the behavior of Democratic primary voters.

1 posted on 12/06/2019 1:03:54 AM PST by C19fan
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It couldn’t be that she was just a horrendously unlikable candidate. Nah, couldn’t be.


2 posted on 12/06/2019 1:06:34 AM PST by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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“Diverse” is just code for “not white” it seems. They have two women, a gay guy and the would-be first Jewish President among their current six slated for the December debate.

It’s no one’s fault that the Democratic primary electorate wasn’t interested in Harris, or isn’t interested in Yang or Gabbard or Castro. Black primary voters seem to want Joe Biden, are they racist for not voting for Booker?


3 posted on 12/06/2019 1:12:27 AM PST by Trump20162020
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Kamala was a slut. She same sexy wiles she used on horndog Willie Brown (to sleep her way to power in California) were worn on her sleeve in hopes that the American voters could also be seduced (albeit into an unrequited sexual relationship).


4 posted on 12/06/2019 1:17:59 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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She hasn’t aged well. Looks like an Edvard Munch painting now.


5 posted on 12/06/2019 1:24:33 AM PST by angmo
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She hasn’t aged well. Looks like an Edvard Munch painting now.


6 posted on 12/06/2019 1:26:33 AM PST by angmo
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kamala harris is - at best - 1/4 black and, according to her own father, is descended from a slave owner in Jamaica (Hamilton Brown). Between herself and corey booker combined they are 3/4 black at the most.


7 posted on 12/06/2019 1:31:15 AM PST by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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Playing the race card instead of bettering oneself?

You are done Booker. You never left the plantation, stuck in the history of 200 years ago instead of being in the present. That’s why you are a loser.

Kamala is a loser because of her record and lack of accomplishment. Her race plays no part in her failure to succeed.

Welcome to the circular firing squad.


8 posted on 12/06/2019 1:33:50 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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NPR? Now there's a reliable source.

Hard Questions About Race And Power? Well to her credit at least she didn't say we need a conversation about it.

To a liberal, a conversation is a one way harangue, an attempt to shame the unbeliever.
 

9 posted on 12/06/2019 1:55:32 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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oh my God the white privileged white supremacist democrats are at it again. We all know that it is imperative that we diversify, a persons skin color is much more important than what they have in their friggin heads. The stupidity is exhausting


10 posted on 12/06/2019 1:58:47 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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She is a loser because she gloated about when she was prosecutor locking up marijuana offenders for a long time. I don't smoke pot, but even so she was captured on camera gloating about her "accomplishments" And most the people she locked up were black.
 
11 posted on 12/06/2019 2:09:57 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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She is a loser because she gloated about when she was prosecutor locking up marijuana offenders for a long time. I don’t smoke pot, but even so she was captured on camera gloating about her “accomplishments” And most the people she locked up were black. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Exactly. a lack of accomplishment and a bad record. As you know , it didn’t help her at all to go on B lack Community radio and acknowledge that she enjoyed smoking pot herself while having locked away so many pot smokers as a prosecutor.That does not a president make.


12 posted on 12/06/2019 2:17:00 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Democrat primary voters, democrat donors, and media democrats are all RACISTS!!


13 posted on 12/06/2019 2:49:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Obama’s elections really skewed a lot of peoples’ understanding about the racial makeup of this country; if race were the primary factor in elections, why would we ever have a black person elected nationally? There are far more Hispanics than blacks, and sooner than people think we’ll have more Asians as well.


14 posted on 12/06/2019 3:04:22 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: C19fan

This is just anti-white BS.


15 posted on 12/06/2019 3:09:12 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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They do realize that only DEMOCRATS played a role in is, don't they?!?


16 posted on 12/06/2019 3:12:53 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Blame the DNC and the media for rigging the polls and choosing the candidates they want.


17 posted on 12/06/2019 3:16:24 AM PST by tiki
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Corey Booker took one of those DNA tests and publicized the results. He’s less than 50% African by descent.
18 posted on 12/06/2019 3:16:36 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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Corey Booker took one of those DNA tests and publicized the results. He’s less than 50% African by descent.


” ‘Cause he’s black, but not authentically.”


19 posted on 12/06/2019 3:19:12 AM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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When anyone can self-identify as anything, WTH diff does actual pigmentation make?!


20 posted on 12/06/2019 3:21:31 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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