Dahleen Glanton: In the aftermath of Donald Trump, a black woman like Kamala Harris never had a chance at the presidency
by Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune
Dec 05, 2019
3 minutes
Sen. Kamala Harris would have been an excellent president. But it was never going to happen. The elephant in the room was just too big.
She is a woman and she is black. And in the aftermath of Donald Trump, she never had a chance at gaining the kind of broad support needed to keep her campaign financially viable. That's why she abruptly withdrew from the race on Tuesday.
America isn't progressive enough to elect a black woman as head of state, any more than it was when Shirley Chisholm ran in 1972. It's questionable whether
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