It bothers me that Harris's attack on Biden was apparently coldly calculated in advance,

[DemocracyMouse]

256. Your thoughts are beautifully expressed and I agree with much of it...

... except Hillary's problem was not just racism. It was unconscious class superiority which she could never shake.

Biden has worked for decades on behalf of civil rights, but as a recently shared video has shown, he did oppose busing and tried to underplay the white southern proclivity to dehumanize the people they once enslaved. Harris had every right to point that out. If she got emotional it's because it just fucking sucks to be treated like your concerns have no value year after year, decade after decade. There's an eruption going on in society in which the cell phone has revealed the frontlines of white cruelty towards the black community —that would be the deeply uneducated portion of the police.

Yes, not all whites are racists, but we have an obligation to make room for, and even celebrate, African American rebellion. Even more, we should be rebelling with them. The social pyramid which produces racism also produces an under class in every ethnic group. It just so happens that blacks have been oppressed far longer and deeoer than any marginalized group.

My initial statement was not about the candidates and their worthiness. It was simply about Kamala Harris' right, even obligation, to address the question of whether Biden understood the bitter culture of white superiority which was, and is, so concentrated in the South, but can be found everywhere. Things ARE changing, but they don't change without a (nonviolent) fight.