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Topic subjectKamala's had her own gaffes, incl. when it comes to talking about race,
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13385120, Kamala's had her own gaffes, incl. when it comes to talking about race,
Posted by kfine, Fri May-22-20 02:31 PM
so not sure I share your confidence about her being so much "savvier and smarter" than Stacy Abrams or Symone Sanders in this context. There's also a potential colorism layer to your remarks that I find questionable but let me not derail.

All I'm saying is it's pretty wack to shit on black women who are in positions where they basically have to defend Biden as part of their job/potential job, while demanding that a black woman be in the most visible role of defending Biden. That's some classic damned if they do damned if they don't shit.

And I disagree that his running mate *needs* to be anyone other than who it is most constituencies want and who could do the best job if elected, but that's neither here nor there.

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>yes a Black woman needs to be VP and yup
>she will have to figure out a way to defend this but I believe
>someone like Kamala would have found a perfect balance between
>defending it and still holding Biden accountable for it being
>a problematic “joke”, something I don’t think Stacey or
>Symone could pull off.
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>Yes you need a Black woman VP but you need a savvy and smart
>one that knows how to say the right thing that strikes the
>appropriate balance.