She made it clear in her approval speech at the Democratic National Convention in August, once again at her televised argument with Donald Trump a couple of weeks later on, and in all her interviews given that. Vice President Kamala Harris, if or when chosen the 47th United States president, will continue the centre-right policies of her current predecessors, particularly her existing employer, President Joe Biden.
This most likely ways that efforts to attend to earnings equality and hardship, to desert policies that beget violence overseas, and to challenge the latticework of discrimination that impacts Americans of colour and Black females particularly, will be restricted at finest.
If Harris wins this election, her being a Black and South Asian female in the most effective workplace on the planet will not suggest much to marginalised individuals anywhere, due to the fact that she will wield that power in the very same racist, sexist and Islamophobic methods as previous presidents.
“I’m not the president of Black America. I’m the president of the United States of America,” President Barack Obama had actually stated on numerous celebrations throughout his presidency when inquired about doing more for Black Americans while in workplace. As a governmental prospect, Kamala Harris is basically doing the very same. And as it held true with Obama’s presidency, this is bad news for Black Americans, or any other marginalised neighborhood.
Take the concern of real estate.
Harris’s proposed $25,000 grant to assist Americans purchase homes for the very first time is a blanket grant, one that in a real estate market traditionally slanted towards white Americans, will inevitably victimize Black folks and other individuals of colour. Harris’s project pledge does not even recognize in between “novice purchasers” whose moms and dads and brother or sisters currently own homes, and real “first-generation” purchasers who are most likely not white, and do not have any generational wealth.
It appears Harris wishes to appear devoted to assisting “all Americans”, even if it indicates her policies would mainly assist (mainly white) Americans currently living middle-class lives. Any genuine possibility for those amongst the working class and the working bad to have access to the 3 million homes Harris has actually guaranteed is in between slim and none.
Harris’s promises about reproductive rights are similarly non-specific and hence less than assuring to those who currently deal with discrimination and erasure.
She states, if chosen president, she would “codify Roe v Wade”. Every Democratic president because Jimmy Carter has actually made such a pledge and yet stopped working to keep it. Even if Congress were to pass such a law, the far best would challenge this law in court. Even if the federal courts chose to submit such a law, the Supreme Court choices that followed in between 1973 and 2022 provided states the right to limit abortion based upon fetus practicality, implying that a lot of limitations currently in location in lots of states would stay. And with half the states in the United States either prohibiting abortion totally or seriously limiting it, codification of Roe– if it ever in fact materialises–