'Harris’s resilience and moxie were there from the get-go. Being a Black girl in America requires both.' rebel19 writes
Photo: Kamala Harris Campaign About a week before I met Senator Kamala Harris, she took former vice-president Joe Biden to task for his opposition to busing. “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day,” Harris said on the Democratic national debate stage. “That little girl was me.
I’d been invited along with a handful of other women journalists to join the senator for an off-the-record dinner at a restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Radiant in stride, formidable in presence, Senator Harris took a seat at the table in the private room reserved in her honor — all ease and smiles, as if she’d just been called to family dinner. Harris has a beautiful, lyrical laugh up close, and she’s generous with it. She likes to laugh.
Long before the overly commercialized Black Girl Magic mantra came into existence — in spite of the alarming rates at which Black girls are more criminalized and punished more harshly in schools across the country than their white peers — and long after it is forgotten, Black girls are forever the daughters of the words of Audre Lorde: “I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womanness, and therefore my struggles on both of...
I asked her one question along these lines — defending your Blackness, and then ending up with a white husband — and although I can’t tell you her answer, because it was off the record, I can say that her response felt kindred in a way that I hadn’t anticipated. I was reminded of a similar revelation during the process of writing my 1997 book, Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Black Girls in America, a collection of interviews with American Black girls ranging in age from 11 to 18.
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