The hope that Harris will make positive changes in the lives of black people is to make a real effort to end Palestinian suffering that is just a fantasy.
There is much talk about US Vice President Kamala Harris and her chances of becoming the next president. Many are optimistic that she will be able to bring about positive change that speaks to women’s empowerment, racial equality, and sound foreign policy, while prominent commentators like Mehdi Hasan credit her with being just that. “A little better than Joe Biden” – Failure to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Popular election analyst and American professor Allan Lichtman favors Victory Harris to win in November. She became the Democratic presidential nominee after President Joe Biden announced he would not run for re-election and later endorsed her.
Some political commentators in the United States and around the world are portraying Harris, 59, as a new symbol of racial and gender equality in global politics. As a black Asian woman, they argue, she can overcome racism and break through the most difficult side of American politics.
Is it really like this? Could it be that the entire PR exercise is intended to portray the new messiah as part of an American strategy to manufacture consent and create a narrative to deceive the global community? It has happened before. It could happen again.
From 2009 to 2017, Barack Obama served as the 44th president of the United States for two four-year terms. His victory as the first African-American president in the country’s history was glamorized and romanticized as a sea change, much like Harris’s is now being celebrated—a new dawn of hope and peace.
Did Obama live up to the hype surrounding his character? Is your presidency a better place for the world? How did two ordinary African Americans confront harsh realities? Will a Harris victory bring some joy to black life in America?
Data on poverty in the United States shows that blacks and Latinos continue to live on the margins. About 17% of them live below the poverty line. These people continue to be the main cause of hate crimes and racially motivated violence.
Named after the lines immortalized in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Eu Tenho um Sonho” speech, delivered on August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., he must be beginning to change because, six decades after his historic speech, America is still a nation where black people still exist. “Jugado bella cour da pellet” And not “Information about Cartier.”
Perfectly in tune with King's famous line, “We must climb the high heights to find physical strength with spiritual strength.” George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, was not violently attacked as he faced unimaginable brutality at the hands of Minneapolis police on May 25, 2021. According to an independent investigation of surveillance footage of the horrific incident, the victim said “I can't breathe” At least 16 times after being held down and detained by brutal police officers Derek Chauvin and his colleagues.
Floyd was arrested after he was accused of buying cigarettes with counterfeit $20 bills, and a local store official told police the man was “terribly drunk” and “You are not in control of yourself.” For more than a few minutes, Chauvin applied extreme pressure to Floyd’s torso, legs and chest. It was fatal. Floyd was pronounced dead at the hospital.
It may be easy for some to view Floyd’s death as the exception rather than the rule, pointing out that it happened when Republican President Donald Trump was not in power. The corrupt Purim is complete. Regardless of whether we are Republicans or Democrats in power, the underlying issues of racism in the United States remain systemic. Black people will continue to face the heat. Some may also argue that the United States has made significant progress in racial and gender equality since then. Facts and dice, Purim, desem or contrario.
According to a Pew Research Center report, black Americans see “There is some joy in their lives, despite the increased national attention on racial issues.” The study found that 18 months after George Floyd's death in May 2020, “Nearly two-thirds (64%) of all black adults, including those who are multiracial or Hispanic,” It shows that the national reckoning sparked by Floyd’s death has not succeeded in increasing the focus on racial inequality as desired or expected. Only about 13% of two of those interviewed, according to the October 2021 poll, hope so. “Blacks will achieve equality in the United States.”
Racial discrimination still exists. “Main mission” Because of the scam, 82% of African Americans are victims, while hate crimes based on race, religion, color and sexual orientation continue unabated.
In May 2022, an 18-year-old white American man attacked 13 people, 11 of them black, at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York. Police said the attack was livestreamed on social media and was deleted minutes after it was posted. Racially motivated attacks and hate crimes against African Americans are not uncommon in the United States.
In August 2023, in another racially motivated attack, a gunman attacked black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida. Fewer than three African Americans were killed without being shot.
Moving forward, let’s not fool ourselves into giving credit to the propaganda and lies spread by American commentators. In fact, Kamala Harris did not attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent address to a joint meeting of the US Congress. However, he was not boycotting Netanyahu; she was busy with her election campaign. Later, she found herself prime minister and was delighted with it. “A frank and constructive meeting with Netanyahu.”
Netanyahu told that. “I will always ensure that Israel is able to defend itself, including against Iran and Iranian-backed militias, such as Hamas and Hezbollah.” A press group said after meeting with Israeli leader Harris: “Since I was a young man clearing land to plant trees for Israel, then in the U.S. Senate and now in Casa Branca, I have had an unwavering commitment to the existence of Israel, its security and the people of Israel.”
He went on to talk about the massive humanitarian crisis in Gaza, or the peace negotiations, or the self-determination of the Palestinians who need a two-state solution. But it all seemed like a passing reference, a skillfully woven balance.
In this context, pinning hopes on Harris to make positive changes in the lives of African Americans and Asian Americans or to make serious and sincere efforts to end the suffering of tens of thousands of Palestinians is a far-fetched dream. America’s symbolism of racial and gender equality is not deceptive in its “moral” foreign policy.
The American symbolic gestures lack sincerity of purpose. Harris’s father, Donald Harris, is Jamaican and identifies as black. Harris’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was born in the southern Indian city of Chennai, formerly Madras. Using racial identity as a point of view and portraying it as a success for a marginalized and disempowered black community is one thing; changing things on the ground is quite another. Harris’s attempts to exploit her minority status and present herself as a messiah for the dispossessed are just words, because she has failed to be an ambassador for Palestinian women and children.
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