Clarence Page: Kamala Harris defies the soft bigotry of racial expectations
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Aug 21, 2020
3 minutes
All of the chatter surrounding the historic rise of Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris sounds like an unfortunate trip through a Wayback Machine.
The “What is she?” questions about Harris, daughter of a mother from India and a father from Jamaica, sound eerily and perhaps inevitably similar to the questions that popped up in 2007 about how to label another rising candidate of color, Barack Obama.
Like Obama, Harris challenges
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