Kim Foxx, whom Harris mentored after Foxx became the first Black woman elected state’s attorney in Cook County, Illinois, said this is a learned reticence. “There’s a reality of doing this work as a woman and a Black woman—and it often isn’t talked about a lot publicly—that there’s a presumed resilience around people who are first,” Foxx told me. “There is a celebration of what it means to break the ceiling, and not nearly the conversation of what the cuts to your head look like.”

Are you freaking kidding me? This one of the lamest, most absurd, and self-defeating copouts I’ve ever seen in my life from a politician.

The left prides themselves on being able to declare “firsts.” Like the “first black president,” etc. They point to these as being evidence of significant progress in the push for wider recognition of minority groups. //

That she’s not addressing the media and her critics more tells us one of two things (or maybe both): She’s used to being coddled by a compliant press who are obsessed with left-wing “firsts” and avoids them as a way of punishing them for “not getting her” and/or she’s just winging all of this as she goes along and would rather avoid having to take pesky questions that would ultimately prove her critics right as to just how unsuited she is for the tasks she was given by President Biden. //

cafeblue32
5 hours ago edited
The writer misses the point. Kamala's gender and skin color is her job. That's why she was selected. Certainly not for personality and competence. She's doing all they want her to do until Joe plotzes, leaves voluntarily or he gets 25th Amendmented out to Happy Acres Rest Home. At that point, she will assume Biden's place as a brainless butt puppet mouthpiece for the shadow Obama government and their donors. //

Mildreds Oldest Son
5 hours ago
So, when are we going to be done with 'firsts' and start appointing people based on ability? First woman VP, first Native American, first Latino/a first LBGTMNOP, first, first first. How long is the 'first' list, how many incompetent/inexperienced 'firsts' do we have to suffer through until we can start using experience and competence as determining factor in appointments. How long is the 'first' list, how many so-called aggrieved parties will want their turn at being 'first' before the virtue signaling stops and competence is the order of the day? Anyone have an answer...? Anyone? //

albertconstantinejr Mildreds Oldest Son
5 hours ago
The democrat's first catholic justice of SCOTUS was Roger Taney, author of opinion in the Dred Scott case that required a civil war, hundreds of thousands of lives and multiple constitutional amendments to undo.

How'd that first work out? //

cafeblue32 Mildreds Oldest Son
5 hours ago edited
With intersectional identity politics they will never run short of firsts. I can't wait for the first multiracial androgynous paraplegic with social anxiety and Tourette's Syndrome. And maybe after that, the first Down Syndrome president to make the developmentally disabled feel represented. Because making sure all identities are represented is the prime responsibility of a chief executive.

The left doesn't see the culture as set of agreed upon principles as a vehicle to improve lives. It sees the culture as a mirror where everywhere they look they demand to see their own reflection.