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    Robin Abcarian: So many female presidential candidates, so many sexist double standards

    by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times Jan 24, 2019 3 minutes

    On Tuesday morning, the day after Democratic U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris made her presidential bid official, a fledgling birther conspiracy about her began to take wing on Twitter.

    Harris, who happens to be the child of immigrants, was born in Oakland.

    Which, you know, is in America.

    To some voters, I guess she seems exotic(ASTERISK) because she is biracial, the child of an Indian mother and Jamaican father. ((ASTERISK)Exotic: Not like us.)

    We live in a country where racism refuses to die, but Harris' big challenge is not going to be the color of

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