Kamala Harris Remodels ‘Agenda for Black Men’ to Target EveryoneWendell Husebø 16 Oct 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris repurposed her “Agenda for Black Men” on Wednesday. It will no longer exclusively target the black community.
The Harris campaign announced on Monday more taxpayer-funded proposals for the black community. Polling showed Harris has about 12-15 percent less black voter support than President Joe Biden won in 2020.
Two days later, however, the Harris campaign’s “Agenda for Black Men” will actually be for everyone on a “race-neutral basis.”
The Wall Street Journal reported the flip-flop, noting the question of the policy’s former legality:
While Harris’s rhetoric suggests she will provide such benefits specifically to Black men and women, it turns out that the words “and others” are doing a ton of work: The campaign says that the programs listed under the Black men agenda will be open to all Americans on a race-neutral basis.
The vice president is “clear-eyed about how Black men have long been denied the tools that would allow them to grow their wealth, get a good-paying job and support their loved ones—she is championing solutions that will benefit all Americans and address these specific barriers to economic opportunity,” a campaign aide said.
Harris, a lawyer and former state attorney general, knows that under Chief Justice John Roberts, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court has little patience for racial preferences. In 2023, the court found it unconstitutional to consider race in college admissions, overturning precedents that since 1978 had found the goal of student diversity sufficient to justify affirmative action policies. “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Roberts wrote for the court, including well-intentioned programs administered in good faith.
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