The Fear Of a Second Black President, Especially If It's A Woman

The Multi-Year War Against Kamala Harris

William Spivey
Momentum
Published in
7 min readJun 26, 2023

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Let's look back to when Kamala Harris was a US Senator and sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She established a well-earned reputation as being formidable. Nobody wanted to face Kamala's fierce questioning; the witnesses left flustered, and babbling included Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, John Kelly, and Brett Kavanaugh. Harris, the former Attorney General from the State of California, proved herself intelligent, prepared, and a rising star in the Democratic Party. In the judgment of some, she was rising a bit too fast.

Kamala Harris had a meteoric rise in politics. She served two terms as a District Attorney in San Francisco before being elected the Attorney General for California. In 2017 Kamala became a US Senator after winning the 2016 election; she was endorsed by President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden. Once a Senator, though she was the junior member of those serving on the Judiciary Committee, Harris became the most visible presence; her questioning was what…

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William Spivey
William Spivey

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