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I Am a Harris Black Woman Now

Bren Kelly
5 min readJul 21, 2024

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Because the Media Says There Aren’t Enough

More than just these eyes sparkle [Taken freely, without permission, from the White House website, because I paid my taxes]

Just after the wonderful news that Biden is not running and backed Harris, I saw this headline from Newsweek, an old new ragazine taken over by white private equity: Kamala Harris Suffers Polling Blow Among Black Women.

This is a joke right. Black women according to this headline will not turn out in droves, unable and unwilling to vote for the first female and first black woman president. You’re kidding, right? Well, I’ve decided to step up to the plate and become a black woman to vote for Harris and she needs support since black women will be abandoning her in favor of not voting or for Trump.

That’s how it works for fake news. I’ve recall deciding on the vote in the 2020 primary and my choices were a bit up in the air. I was a Never Biden or rather an Anybody But Biden voter. I had a lot of choice. I was thinking maybe Harris as I knew she was a fierce fighter, though Buttigieg dissected all Fox commentators without losing any cool and remaining positive.

My brother called, an Always Bernie, and told me he has proven socialist credentials championing universal health care. He was still fuming from the 2016 Hillary primary victory, after he claimed she and her party members cheated Bernie out of the primary in West Virginia and some other places. I did some research into…

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling Western Consciousness, confronting American narratives, seeking inherent injustices to address.

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