She made it clear in her approval speech at the Democratic National Convention in August, onceagain at her telecasted argument with Donald Trump a coupleof weeks lateron, and in all her interviews consideringthat. Vice President Kamala Harris, if or when chosen the 47th United States president, will continue the centre-right policies of her current predecessors, specifically her present employer, President Joe Biden.
This mostlikely implies that efforts to address earnings equality and hardship, to desert policies that beget violence abroad, and to face the latticework of discrimination that impacts Americans of colour and Black ladies particularly, will be minimal at finest.
If Harris wins this election, her being a Black and South Asian female in the most effective workplace in the world will not indicate much to marginalised individuals anywhere, duetothefactthat she will wield that power in the exactsame 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 stated on numerous events throughout his presidency when asked about doing more for Black Americans while in workplace. As a governmental prospect, Kamala Harris is basically doing the exactsame. And as it was the case with Obama’s presidency, this is not great news for Black Americans, or any other marginalised neighborhood.
Take the problem of realestate.
Harris’s proposed $25,000 grant to aid Americans buy homes for the veryfirst time is a blanket grant, one that in a realestate market traditionally slanted towards white Americans, will inevitably discriminate versus Black folks and other individuals of colour. Harris’s project pledge does not even recognize inbetween “first-time purchasers” whose momsanddads and brotherorsisters currently own homes, and real “first-generation” purchasers who are more mostlikely not white, and do not have any generational wealth.
It appears Harris desires to appear dedicated to assisting “all Americans”, even if it implies her policies would mainly assistance (mostly white) Americans currently living middle-class lives. Any genuine opportunity for those amongst the working class and the working bad to have gainaccessto to the 3 million homes Harris hasactually guaranteed is inbetween slim and none.
Harris’s promises about reproductive rights are similarly non-specific and hence less than assuring to those who currently face discrimination and erasure.
She states, if chosen president, she would “codify Roe v Wade”. Every Democratic president consideringthat Jimmy Carter hasactually made such a pledge and yet stoppedworking to keep it. Even if Congress were to pass such a law, the far right would difficulty this law in court. Even if the federal courts chose to upload such a law, the Supreme Court choices that followed inbetween 1973 and 2022 provided states the right to limit abortion based on fetus practicality, significance that most constraints currently in location in lotsof states would stay. And with half the states in the UnitedStates either prohibiting abortion totally or significantly limiting it, codification of Roe – if it ever infact materialises – would at finest reset the UnitedStates to the precarity around reproductive rights that has existed because 1973.
Even if Harris unbelievely handles to keep her assure, American females of colour, and females living in hardship, will still have less gainaccessto to contraceptives, to abortions, and to prenatal and neonatal care, since all Roe ever did was to make such care “legal”. The law neverever made it costeffective, and definitely neverever made it so that all females had equivalent gainaccessto to services in every state in the union.
Given that she is poised to endedupbeing America’s initially female/woman of colour/Black female president, Harris’s vague and wide-net assures on reproductive rights, which would do little to assistance any ladies, however particularly marginalised ladies, are damning. Sure, it is go