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Kamala Harris’s resounding defeat affirmed the worst of what many Black women believed about their country, even as some looked to the future with a wary determination.
Black women could see the mountaintop.
Across the country, they led an outpouring of Democratic elation when the vice president took over the top of the presidential ticket. But underneath their hope and determination was a persistent worry: Was America ready, they asked, to elect a Black woman?
The painful answer arrived this week.
It affirmed the worst of what many Black women believed about their country: that it would rather choose a man who was convicted of 34 felonies, has spewed lies and falsehoods, disparaged women and people of color, and pledged to use the powers of the federal government to punish his political opponents than send a woman of color to the White House.
“But half black and half Indian?!?” [Clutches pearls.]
There was Fox anchor that said straight to Vivek’s face that she wouldn’t vote for him because he’s Indian heritage.
Vivec is half-Chimer/half-Dunmer though
Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought they were the same thing? The golden-skinned Chimer all transformed (painfully?) into the Dark-skinned Dunmer elven race?