Kamala Harris: Anointed by Identity Politics and Empty Promises
What do you do when you are the U.S. Democratic Presidential presumptive nominee with no agenda, haven’t won a single delegate, and have a vice-presidential performance so poor it can only be compared to the likes of Dan Quayle? Well, when you don’t have anything to run on and you are aiming for the highest office in the land, you pretend you have enthusiasm and momentum on your side by playing identity politics. Kamala Harris has been tossed the ball, and now she is running, rallying her most important voting bloc—the American Black community—to sweep her into the White House.
The Media Hype and the Real Kamala
Kamala Harris is being propped up by the media as the poster child of “I have a dream,” as if her legacy is comparable to Martin Luther King’s. She is a pretender, becoming whatever is necessary in the moment. Today, she is an American Black woman, cooking collard greens—as if collard greens are reserved for Blacks only. She’s been visiting jazz shops in Black neighborhoods and attending sorority meetings, perpetrating a straight fraud, telling stories reminiscent of the American Black struggle, pretending to have been there.
Her mother would never have been able to tell the story of growing up on a farm, sharecropping in Mississippi, or how our brothers and sisters went from “raggedy little begging motherfuckers” to the new kids on the block with a Glock, only to be set up and arrested by a white undercover cop. Kamala will never know what it means to walk on needles and crack vials or to see your uncle in an alley with your childhood friend, shooting up. She will never understand how one steps outside of harsh reality to sit back and watch fiends and alcoholics parade down bleak streets. She will never grasp the longing to leave a place of poverty and destitution. She will never understand.
Listening to the media, you might start to believe the hype; her campaign appears locked and loaded. The enthusiasm is intoxicating, and this rise in momentum—right over Joe Biden—can only be compared to President Barack Obama’s campaign. It’s as if they believe the ADOS community learned nothing from Obama’s presidency.
Don’t get me wrong, there is a difference between President Barack Obama and Harris: he fought for his positions. Yes, he lost a race, but he continued to fight by convincing voters. President Obama ran a grassroots foot campaign that inspired a nation. Harris, on the other hand, is unable to even convince enough CA voters to come to her side—not because she has Black skin but because she has a poor record. She is a drag.
After President Joe Biden shocked the world by announcing he would drop out of the presidential race, Harris’ campaign raised $81 million in 24 hours. In the next 48 hours, she secured 1,900 delegates to become the Democratic presumptive nominee. To celebrate, she held Zoom calls with Black Women for Kamala, racking up millions more and creating a domino effect. Then there were Zoom calls with White Women for Kamala and, lately, White Dudes for Kamala, steadily increasing her funds. Meanwhile, warships are headed to the Middle East, Iran has hit another American military base, the stock market and our economy are in shock, yet every left-leaning pundit will deny the truth of the economy and instead attempt to convince their largest voting bloc to ignore these issues because Kamala is Black.
At the same time, she is unable to draw more than 100 people to her rallies. To pretend she has the numbers on her side, after an embarrassing performance at a few events and rallies, Harris had to call out the big dogs in Atlanta, GA. She had Andre Dickens, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Raphael Warnock, Quavo was in the house and Meg the Stallion gave a performance so cringe all that can be said is—this how you go big on big—stop it!! All the grand standing and lies that floated around claiming Harris is African American was followed by another word salad speech, that lacked facts, failed to take responsibility for the current economic conditions impacting middle class and self proclamation of being a powerful Black DA capable of bringing down Donald Trump. “Say it to my face,” Harris feigned.
DEI PICK
Kamala Harris is the hand-picked representation of every negative connotation associated with the acronym DEI. She exemplifies DEI gone wrong. Her selection by Biden was a watered-down version of what DEI was designed for—to benefit ADOS. She has exploited this privilege, and it’s sad. She doesn’t represent ADOS and certainly doesn’t represent American Black women like myself. Yet, we are judged in our corporate lives by her standard.
Kamala is undoubtedly a DEI hire; her selection as VP is still used as a talking point by Joe Biden. She was chosen for her skin color, not her capabilities. The perception that all Black people are selected solely because of our skin color, regardless of qualifications or capabilities, is the fallacy she represents.
Her campaign should have countered the DEI perceptions by highlighting her qualifications. However, the problem they found is that all she has to offer America is a dismal record as District Attorney of San Francisco and California Attorney General. She rose through the ranks due to skin color, favoritism, Willie Brown, and the backs of Black folk. To present herself as a tough prosecutor, she treated Black people as pawns, imprisoned women, and kept men in jail. Harris doesn’t align with my ideas, beliefs, or heritage.
Poor Performance and Perceptions
Over the last three years, Kamala Harris has kept her promise to focus on immigration, but she has made no attempt to define any ADOS initiative. The left-leaning media attempts to obscure this truth, claiming, “She was not the immigration czar,” despite her two responsibilities as Vice President: to mislead the American public about the economy and to empower communities in other nations, while avoiding the topic of generational wealth for the American Black community.
The obvious result is failed immigration policies and an economy on the brink of collapse, a direct consequence of poor energy policies and Bidenomics. Our stock market crashed on Friday, August 3, due to inflation and a poor jobs report; Bidenomics highlights the failure of the Biden/Harris presidency. Even if you ignore facts about her race, you can’t ignore her failures. She has ignored the border, our allies, and our communities. She has lied about student loan debt, Medicare for All, Bidenomics, and even Biden’s mental state.
Trump doesn’t have to play identity politics with Harris. She has a record. The media will tell you that Harris’s enthusiasm is generated because she’s Black, but her public record is being swept clean. You can barely find an article critical of Harris, but we remember. How many times is Joy Reid going to dismiss those of us who disagree with this notion that Harris is Black and claim those of us that believe that she’s not are ridiculous? We have to listen to this nonsense repeatedly in the media, as if we are so blind and dumb we will believe any narrative coming from the donkey’s ass.
All the shouting from the left and their emphasis on polls favorable to Kamala Harris, while downplaying more reputable pollsters for positive headlines, is a strategy. It is quite obvious there are cracks in that foundation.
As an American Black woman, I would love nothing more than to see a qualified ADOS Black woman run for president and win. Heck, when I knew very little about Kamala, I rooted for her when she came on the scene in 2017. Not knowing better, I believed she was the only ADOS female senator at that time—now I know she’s not ADOS. Back then I was hyped for her, but then came the Brett Kavanaugh Senate confirmation hearings—and her ridiculous performance. When I listened to Harris, I felt dumb because nothing she said made sense. I got lost in the fog of words, clichés, and veiled threats. It was all a staged game she was playing, and we know the result: Kavanaugh was confirmed.
Identity Politics infused in Media Narratives
MSNBC is pandering and playing identity politics with loud-mouthed pundits like Joy Reid, but CNN is playing the same game. Every host echoes the same narrative: Kamala Harris will be the first Black female vice president, a Howard graduate with a Jamaican father.
Even American Black podcasters are contributing to the ambiguity surrounding Kamala Harris’s racial identity. Mark Lamont Hill says Harris is Black but stops short of calling her African American, showing a bit of integrity in handling the issue. On the other hand, Don Lemon, who argued in 2020 that Harris was not American Black, has now reversed his stance and claims she is Black. This flip-flopping, without defining what “Black” means, is sheer conflation. It highlights how race is used ambiguously and strategically in politics, demonstrating that Harris is using identity tactics to boost her campaign.
Democrats have had the media referring to certain whites as nationalists, white supremacists, and deplorables since 2012. They have referred to Trump as a criminal, a rapist, a racist, and have made allegation after allegation for the last three years. Some privileged American Black women have even called out, on media platforms, the fact that Trump cheated on Melania with a porn star while Melania was pregnant—as if Melania Trump is not a woman. It’s as if cheating with a porn star is worse than a 30-year-old woman selling her body to an old married man for a DA seat. We all have skeletons in the closet. Yet, the Trump campaign, according to the media, is accused of playing dirty politics.
I will say that what happened on January 6 was maddening—that is no lie. For a moment, I thought America was on the brink of civil war, but the way the judicial and legislative branches of government checked Trump and upheld the Constitution was inspiring. It demonstrated that when tested, Trump had no power. If he wanted to serve as President for another term after Biden/Harris won the White House, he would have to do it the democratic way—by running again and winning.
The Hypocrisy
As soon as Trump and JD Vance use terms like “cat ladies,” “DEI hires,” or “immigration czar,” the media cries foul, accusing them of using language that belittles women and reflects disdain for people of color. Both sides engage in name-calling and ad hominem attacks.
The left is using language to throw bricks—but even light punches seem like knockouts to them. The outrage is almost comical. It’s unfortunate that if you lack a record, no voter support, and have been handed the ball and patted on the back by a nice white man, all that’s left to do is play the race card and name-call.
Harris has no clear agenda. In contrast, Trump has a defined agenda—whether you agree with it or not, he has one. Yet, Joy Reid and other MSNBC hosts, along with media pundits, are creating fear around Project 2025 as if it’s Trump’s agenda and as if Harris has a more appealing agenda of her own. If you visit her website, all you find is jargon and empty space.
During her 2020 run for president, Harris exploited the ADOS community by going on speaking tours and appearing on Black platforms, offering free incentives to our community, like crack. Today, she continues the same strategy—attending Black national sorority conventions, speaking at Black funerals, and campaigning in African American communities to portray herself as one of us. The American Black church will be next—just watch.
Her affiliation with AKA (Alpha Kappa Alpha) is used as proof that she is ADOS. I was never an AKA, nor did I attend an HBCU—does that mean I am not Black? These liberal pundits even reference the one-drop rule, echoing sentiments from the Jim Crow era, where whites hoped to preserve purity in their bloodlines by classifying even a drop of Black blood as tainted—it is absurd. Now we are running around saying that even a drop of Black blood makes you Black. Perhaps that is true, but I don’t know the measure of what constitutes Blackness. However, having a drop of Black blood does not make you ADOS. Peep the difference.
Harris’s 2020 campaign championed abortion and promised a monthly stipend to poor communities, I.e. the American black community, she exploits vulnerabilities within our community to attract support. Since becoming VP, she has not fulfilled these promises; instead, she continued to advocate for abortion and has remained silent on reparations for the American Black community.
Although she has not explicitly acknowledged her inability to restore Roe v. Wade, it is clear that overturning the Dobbs decision would be a significant challenge, especially given that it took 75 years for Roe v. Wade to be decided and then returned to the states. Now, she claims she can overturn Dobbs in just four years without the support of the Supreme Court.
To achieve this, Biden and Harris have proposed introducing policies to impose term limits on Supreme Court Justices. This move is ironic, considering that the rule change made by Senate Democrats in 2013—eliminating the filibuster for most judicial nominees—set the stage for the current makeup of the Supreme Court.
Flip flop
Harris’s shifting positions on various issues highlight her inconsistency and lack of genuine commitment. A prime example is her Middle Eastern foreign policy. She was once a supporter of Palestinians, calling for a ceasefire. However, as the Democratic presumptive nominee, she now aligns with Israel and is even considering a Jewish white man as her VP candidate.
She briefly supported Palestinians, even traveling to Israel to hold secret meetings with Benny Gantz, a former member of Netanyahu’s war cabinet, seemingly to mediate the conflict in Gaza. Recently, after becoming the Presidential nominee, Harris gave a speech expressing unwavering support for Israel and echoing Joe Biden’s talking points. Clearly, there is no distinction between her policy views and Biden’s, so it’s no surprise if Biden’s 2024 agenda becomes her de facto agenda.
Today, Nate Silver predicts that Kamala Harris has a path to the White House, claiming she will win all four Rust Belt states and Georgia. It’s troubling to think she could actually win. President Obama and Biden carried Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. Harris would also need Georgia to win.
Trump needs only one of the Rust Belt states, and with JD Vance, he could clinch a win in Pennsylvania. We have been surprised before, and Kamala knows she needs all four states to have even a semblance of hope.
Out of her six VP choices, it’s likely she will pick Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, believing he can help her win blue-collar voters and stop Trump. This choice reflects her disregard for the American Black community, as she wouldn’t consider selecting an ADOS candidate for the White House. Now, she’s promoting fracking when she previously supported the Green New Deal—a clear contradiction.
She has flipped from being an Indian-Jamaican-American, a Palestinian supporter, and a believer in abortion and climate change to presenting herself as a Black woman who supports drilling and Israel. Yet, she still argues that American Black women should have the right to terminate pregnancies, which undermines our legacy, while pretending that some states don’t respect that right.
Threat to America
“Trump is a threat to democracy,” says a candidate who has received zero delegates, bypassed a primary election, and has done nothing for America.
I want to mention JD Vance for a moment. He’s from the rust belt, he grew up poor, his mother suffered from addiction, raised by his grandmother, went to Yale and served in the military and somehow Harris had the audacity to question what Vance has done for America. What has she done for America beside suck up DEI benefits.
She states Vance is an Hypocrite hypocrite hypocrite because, like many Americans, he once despised Trump based on the Democratic narrative. But I despise Trump less than I despise the Democrats for their policies that continue to destroy our community.
I resent the way Democrats use “free for all” to keep us dependent, drunk, and stupid. Free healthcare, free college, food stamps, and rental stipends—they give a crumb here and a crumb there for us to nibble on, keeping us quiet until we cast that vote. Then they cut us off—one month of food stamps and access to abortion clinics is all we will get from Biden/Harris.
Harris has nothing more to say about the Trump/Vance ticket except to claim they are “weird.” For an entire week, there was serious wordsmithing around a five-letter word. “Weird” became a national buzzword. When she referred to Trump/Vance as “weird” during her campaign rally in GA, I realized she was responsible for pundits going on a media blitz, calling Trump and his campaign “weird.” All week long, her surrogates have been like marionettes, repeating the same talking point.
Dahtruth
Examining Harris’s performance as Vice President reveals a lack of significant initiatives or policies. Her handling of the border crisis has been abysmal, with record numbers of illegal immigrants entering the United States under her watch. The administration now pretends as if she wasn’t in charge of the border, claiming numbers are dropping and pointing out the border bill that failed because of Trump. Of course, he was not in office but they blame him for disrupting the law-abiding bodies—and the Biden/Harris administration could do nothing to stop it.
I think it’s fair for any American to consider who we vote into office. In 2020, I voted for Biden out of fear of another Trump presidency. But look at our world today: Iran and Israel’s war in Gaza, Russia’s attempted annexation of Ukraine, our failed policies in Africa, the destruction in Haiti, our failed border crisis, inflation, rising gas and food prices, and soaring electric costs. I could go on and on—but I won’t.
In the end, Kamala Harris’s lackluster performance, empty promises, and reliance on identity politics reveal a candidate who is not fit for the highest office. She has no substantive agenda or real policies to offer the American people. Despite the media hype and her attempts to play the race card, the fact remains: her record as Vice President is underwhelming, and her campaign is devoid of genuine substance. Voting for her simply because of her skin color is not a viable option. We deserve a leader with clear principles, a robust track record, and a vision that truly addresses the needs of our country. Harris fails on all counts, and we cannot settle for less when the future of America is at stake.
