Far be it for me that defend Kamala Harris, who basically slept her way to the top of the California political world. But attacking Harris’ husband Douglas Emhoff because he’s white seems out of bounds for me. That’s exactly what MSNBC did, and yet there is a collective yawn from the usual race baiters and hustlers. Does it really matter if Kamala Harris’ husband is white? If the two of them love each other, why the hell is that even mentioned as a factor? But to MSNBC, she needs to dump that cracker Douglas Emhoff and get a strong, black man advocate. According to MSNBC, Harris needs to dump whitey because “the African-American community expects more from people who look like us” or something.
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TIFFANY CROSS: Black men. Blue-collar black men. They’re going to have a problem with her record . . . but I will say, I think the African-American community expects more from people who look like us, particularly a candidate who represents us . . . She needs to find a strong, black man advocate who can be in her corner at some point in the campaign — at any space in her campaign, I would say, that’s my key advice: find a prominent blue-collar, self-made, black man to be in your corner.”
MSNBC analyst Jason Johnson took it a step further, disqualifying Harris’s white husband as a potential advocate. “Let’s just be candid. When you’re saying she needs to have an advocate out there, it’s not going to be her [white] husband. She needs to surround herself with African-American men.”
Note: this was also an exercise in identity politics at its most explicit. Consider this from Cross: “the African-American community expects more from people who look like us.”
Reid didn’t disagree with any of her guests, but fretted that Harris might be the only candidate to pay a price for her law-enforcement background, whereas Joe Biden and Cory Booker voted for a crime bill which is now controversial on the left.