EDITORIAL: We Stand with the Black Women of Harlem
If the spate of reports is true, Trump and his allies are planning to dig up Kamala Harris’s left-leaning tendencies, and her positions on various liberal issues and use them against her. For the hundreds of Black women who rallied on Sunday in Harlem for her, to do so would not be a bad thing, particularly her stance on women’s reproductive rights, banning of assault weapons, calling for term limits and ethics guidelines for Supreme Court Justices—a proposal announced by President Biden on Monday during a recent visit to Texas.
The Black women of Harlem firmly backed Harris for president and expressed no qualms about her progressive agenda, one that stands in direct contrast to many of Trump’s reactionary, anti-democratic plans.
Trump, as expected, will try to dig up every negative thing he can find, no matter its veracity, to tar Harris, citing her as unpatriotic, and a supporter of liberal ideas. The Harris team should not run from this but instead use it as part of their forward-looking outlook as they paint Trump as a troglodyte and creature imbued with racist and misogynistic attitudes and behavior.
In other words, the Harris team can flip every charge leveled at their candidate as just the opposite of theirs. As Councilmember Yusef Salaam said at Sunday’s rally, she has a strong prosecutorial background, and Trump is a “felon who according to current American laws cannot vote.”
Harris should not take one step back from her progressive credentials, not move an iota from her commitment to upholding the virtues of democracy. She should make it plain that she is better prepared to take this country into the promises and high-sounding rhetoric we have heard again and again from a bevy of elected officials.
Finally, Harris should proudly own the liberal notions that Trump will be attacking her on for the next 100 days, remember all the lies that Trump the denier has fostered on the American public, and push forward whether he chooses to debate or not. And there is a good chance he will refuse the challenge, take a powder, and place the blame on Biden for leaving the race. Anything but facing reality, facing a well-informed prosecutor who knows the Trump type and all of its failings.
Yes, as the Black women of Harlem noted, “Democracy is on the ballot” and Trump is on the run. But he can’t hide!
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