Who are these racists and sexists that won’t support female candidates of color?
Jazz ShawPosted at 8:01 am on December 5, 2019
The disappointment on the faces of many cable news personalities when Kamala Harris dropped out of the primary race was obvious. Others have been chiming in on the question as well, including former NAACP president Cornell William Brooks. As the one viable candidate who was both female and Black, Harris ticked all the right boxes. Brooks sees her failure to gain significant, lasting traction in the primary as a result of endemic racism, while others blame the primary structure itself. (The Hill)
Some are accusing the media of going easy on white candidates. There are also arguments that late-arriving billionaire candidates are drowning out other campaigns.
“It’s very troubling and I’m worried that Democrats might be setting themselves up for failure,†said Cornell William Brooks, a former NAACP president and current director at the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice at Harvard University.
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