What Does Being “Black Enough” Mean for Kamala Harris?

Kitanya Harrison
7 min readJan 31, 2019
Source: Office of Senator Kamala Harris [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

American Presidential election cycles are always torturously long and hellish to endure. You don’t have to be clairvoyant to know that 2020 is going to be historically toxic — even worse than 2016. The road to the Democratic nomination is going to be absolutely brutal. Some of the attacks are already in the gutter, and we’re not even out of January 2019 yet. It’s way too early to say anyone is a…

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Kitanya Harrison

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