Democrat presidential nominee-apparent Joe Biden has selected Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate. The Jamaican-Indian woman is CA's junior senator and its former state Attorney General.
You will see her referred to as African-American, which is not accurate. Her ancestry is Jamaican (father) and Indian (mother), both her parents are immigrants to this country, where she was born. Her husband is white.
I have read she has a claim to Jamaican (dual) citizenship, should she choose to exercise it. I know of no evidence that she has done so.
Sen. Harris was a protégé of CA's Mr. Democrat, Willie Brown, retired after 15 years as Speaker of the Assembly and 8 years as Mayor of San Francisco. Ironically, Brown recently publicly advised her not to accept the VP nomination, advice she obviously choose to ignore.
It will be interesting to see to what extent her prosecutorial role in locking thousands of Black Americans in CA prisons will have on her popularity with that key Democrat constituency.
When Trump was elected, I predicted the Democrats would never again nominate a white candidate for president. I was wrong, they weren't that smart.
Recognizing the problem, they have nominated a non-white candidate for VP. If that fails, we'll see ... maybe the failure will convince them.
