DEI hire? Late Democrat admitted the truth about why Biden chose Kamala Harris as his VP



Defenders of Vice President Kamala Harris argue that people who claim she was a "DEI hire" — or chosen to be President Joe Biden's 2020 running mate because she is a black woman — are racist.

"This is a right-wing campaign that's going to be racist [and] misogynistic against the vice president," Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) said Tuesday on CNN.

'There was broad agreement among his advisers that Mr. Biden should choose a woman of color, though Mr. Biden remained drawn to both Ms. Whitmer and Ms. Warren.'

"These are just racist dog whistles," he added. "Whenever you hear 'DEI,' I want you to think about the N-word. I want you to think about racial slurs. That's what they actually mean."

But is it racist? Or is there truth to the claim that Harris was selected to be Biden's running mate because she is a black woman?

If you ask the late Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) — who spent decades in Democratic Party leadership — Harris' skin color was essential to the Biden campaign's ultimate decision to choose her over other potential running mates.

"I think he came to the conclusion that he should pick a black woman," Reid told the New York Times in 2020.

Indeed, the final short list of potential Biden running mates contained only women because Biden pledged in March 2020 that he would only choose a woman, thus excluding all male Democrats from consideration.

That list of women included Harris, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), now-former Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and even Susan Rice and Stacey Abrams.

Importantly, the New York Times revealed that Biden himself preferred someone other than Harris — but his "team" wanted him to select a black woman.

The Times reported in August 2020:

By July, Mr. Biden and his team were converging on a theory of his decision, if not yet an actual vice-presidential pick.There was broad agreement among his advisers that Mr. Biden should choose a woman of color, though Mr. Biden remained drawn to both Ms. Whitmer and Ms. Warren.

Despite Biden's reported personal preference, Harris became a front-runner for the spot only after racial riots and unrest erupted across the country in the wake of George Floyd's murder in June 2020.

It was that national event that began a pressure campaign from Democrats to force Biden to select a black woman as his running mate.

Here is how the media told the story at the time:

  • NPR: "Pressure Grows On Joe Biden To Pick A Black Woman As His Running Mate"
  • New York Times: "A Black Running Mate for Biden? More Democrats Are Making the Case"
  • CNN: "Black women mount public and private campaign for Biden to pick a Black woman running mate"
  • Politico: "Klobuchar shuts down VP speculation, urges Biden to pick woman of color"
  • Boston Globe: "Joe Biden already was under pressure to pick a Black woman running mate. The outrage over George Floyd’s death adds to it."
  • Los Angeles Times: "Biden faces pressure to pick a Black woman as his running mate. Who should it be?"
  • New York Post: "Joe Biden will choose ‘woman of color’ as running mate by August"
  • Wall Street Journal: "More Democratic Women Urge Joe Biden to Pick a Black Woman Running Mate"
  • Associated Press: "‘Why not a Black woman?’ Consensus grows around Biden’s VP"
  • Axios: "Black Lives Matter co-founder says Biden should pick a Black woman as VP"

In fact, Harris herself highlighted the diverse nature of Biden's choice after she was selected.

"Joe Biden had the audacity to choose a Black woman to be his running mate. How incredible is that? And what a statement that is about Joe Biden," she said in August 2020. "That he decided he was going to do that thing that was about breaking one of the most substantial barriers that has existed in our country — and he made that decision with whatever risk that brings."

Whether highlighting these facts is a good political strategy remains up in the air. Republican Party leaders certainly don't think so.

But it is simply untrue to assert that the same considerations behind diversity, equity, and inclusion were not paramount to Biden's decision to choose Harris as his running mate.

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Biden identifies as proud black woman in botched effort to reassure voters of his competence



The Democratic Party is in panic mode over the near-universal acknowledgment of President Joe Biden's decrepitude. Internal Democratic polling recently indicated that Biden is set for a humiliating defeat in November following his June debate performance. House and Senate candidates fear he may drag them down as well.

Biden was afforded an opportunity in an interview that aired Thursday on the black Philadelphia radio station 96.1FM to reassure his allies of his competence. It did not go well.

In his rambling interview with host Andrew Lawful-Sanders, Biden doubled down twice on the false suggestion that former President Donald Trump threatened a violent "bloodbath" should he lose the election and suggested further that his opponent "questioned the humanity of George Floyd." Biden emphasized the frequency with which he has appointed black judges and argued that his "bad debate" should not erase what he believes he has accomplished so far in his presidency.

What caught critics' attention, however, was not Biden's revisionism, his record of race-based hiring, or his desire to look past the debate, but rather his passing identification as a black woman.

"By the way, I'm proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman to serve with a black president. Proud to be involved of the first black woman on the Supreme Court," said Biden. "There's so much that we can do because, together, there's nothing — look. This is the United States of America."

Biden, who has previously adopted the life of another politician, appears to have conflated himself with his multiracial running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

The New York Times indicated that Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa was quick to lash out at the media for taking note of Biden's latest gaffe.

'It's just my brain.'

"It was clear what President Biden meant when he was talking about his historic record, including a record number of appointments to the federal bench," said Moussa in reference to Biden's claim of being a black woman. "This is not news, and the media has passed the point of absurdity here."

In the same radio interview, Biden also struggled to make the point that American youth need people of their same race or creed in positions of power to look up to, just as he, as a much younger man, found a role model in John F. Kennedy.

"I'm the first president that got elected statewide in the state of Delaware when I was a kid," said Biden.

The president's subsequent comments indicated he may have been referring to Kennedy's election as the country's first Catholic president, although he provided no such correction or clarification.

Biden's disastrous interview aired the day after he met with around two dozen Democratic governors at the White House. According to the Times, when Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii, a doctor, asked the president about his well-being, Biden responded that his health was fine, "It's just my brain."

In addition to to reportedly joking about his mental faculties, Biden made clear he is staying in the race but needed to work less and to get more sleep.

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Marc Lamont Hill insists Harvard's new president 'MUST be a Black woman' — and people have some suggestions for him



Marc Lamont Hill, a presidential professor at CUNY Graduate Center, has asserted that Harvard University's next president should be a black woman.

"The next president of Harvard University MUST be a Black woman," he tweeted.

The school will need to tap someone to fill the role, as Claudine Gay, who was Harvard's first black president, announced that she is resigning from the post. She noted in a resignation letter that she will "now return to the faculty, and to the scholarship and teaching that are the lifeblood of what we do."

People replied to Hill by suggesting black women on the political right.

In response to someone who mentioned conservative commentator Candace Owens, Hill wrote, "This is the problem. Y'all really think Black people are interchangeable."

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Some floated former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who served under GOP President George W. Bush.

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Others mentioned Carol Swain. "So you'd support @carolmswain for president?" Delano Squires, a contributor to BlazeTV's "Fearless with Jason Whitlock," tweeted.

Someone else shared a photo of Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears holding a gun. "Your terms are acceptable," the tweet read.

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Chaya Raichik, the woman behind Libs of TikTok, mocked Hill by tweeting, "This is not inclusive enough, bigot. The next President of Harvard should be a Latinx nonbinary agender trisexual furry. That would be true diversity."

"And not just any black woman! She must be short. And one-legged. And in the process of transitioning to be a man. Academic credentials entirely optional. This is #DEI," Dinesh D'Souza mocked.

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With Failed ‘Ain’t No Mo,’ It’s Clear White Guilt And Racist Pandering Don’t Sell Seats On Broadway

The new Broadway play, an absurd political satire and lamentation of the black American experience, is set to close early due to poor sales.

CROWDER: Old black woman berates slightly younger white women at dinner



Intellectual honesty is honesty in how we communicate ideas and pertains to any communication that involves transmitting information or persuading. Intellectual honesty means seeing and speaking the truth so others hear the truth. Steven Crowder shared a video on Tuesday's episode of "Louder with Crowder" that demonstrated the opposite of intellectual honesty.

In this video, Crowder shines a light on a Canadian documentary called "Deconstructing Karen." The film features an older black woman and slightly younger Latino woman berating slightly younger white women for their "white lady" racism—video below.

Would you trade places with a black person? That's one question posed to guests sitting around the dinner table. Crowder explains why he believes Regina Jackson and Saira Rao's RACE2DINNER — a movement to inspire white women to confront themselves and to acknowledge their racism and complicity in white supremacy — could be the most racist thing you've seen today. Video below.


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Would you trade places with a Black person? That's one question that @Race2D founders ask their guests. They host dinner parties where the main course is an honest conversation about racism — with white women.

Watch 'Deconstructing Karen' on The Passionate Eye next Friday. pic.twitter.com/HrQRKGuPCz

— CBC Docs (@cbcdocs) September 17, 2022

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McConnell shuts down reporter who asks loaded question about how black women are 'informing' him on SCOTUS nominee



Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) shut down a reporter after being asked how many black staffers he employs and how they are "informing" his decision on President Joe Biden's forthcoming Supreme Court nominee.

What happened?

At a press conference on Tuesday, reporter Pablo Manríquez, a correspondent for Latino Rebels, asked McConnell how black female staffers are advising him on Biden's future nominee.

"How many black women do you have on staff and how are they informing your decision to move forward with the SCOTUS nomination?" Manríquez asked, adding that he wanted every senator present to respond to his question.

McConnell, unable to hear the question, had Manríquez repeat it. Then, once he heard it, McConnell shut down the premise of the question.

"Yeah — actually, I haven’t checked. We don’t have a racial quota in my office," McConnell responded. "But I’ve had a number of African-American employees, both male and female, over the years in all kinds of different positions, including speechwriter."

Question: "How many Black women do you have on staff and how are they informing your decision to move forward with the SCOTUS nomination."\n\nMcConnell: "Actually, I haven't checked. We don't have a racial quota in my office. But I've had a number of African American employees."pic.twitter.com/z6e0Cowjkc
— Forbes (@Forbes) 1643749044

The implication of the question suggested that McConnell may be unqualified to thoughtfully determine whether a black female jurist is qualified for the Supreme Court because he is a white male.

However, considering that McConnell has been voting on federal judges for more than 35 years and is himself a lawyer, McConnell is more than qualified to make determinations about any judicial nominee — no matter their skin color or gender.

What is the background?

The question came after Biden, upon Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announcing his retirement, promised that his forthcoming opportunity to fill a Supreme Court vacancy will result in the "the first black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court."

The promise has drawn criticism from people who liken it to affirmative action. Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley even called the promise "unconstitutional" because Biden's promise essentially eliminates men and non-black women from consideration if his nominee will be "the first black woman" ever nominated to the Supreme Court.

Women reportedly under top consideration for the nomination include:

  • Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who sits on the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals;
  • Leondra Kruger, a justice on the California Supreme Court; and
  • J. Michelle Childs, a district court judge in South Carolina.

Biden is expected to announce his nominee by the end of February.

Liberal constitutional scholar punches holes in Biden's promise to ensure a black woman fills Supreme Court vacancy



Jonathan Turley — a constitutional scholar, professor at George Washington University Law School, and self-described "liberal" — denounced President Joe Biden's promise to seemingly only consider a black woman for his upcoming Supreme Court nomination.

What is the background?

After Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced that he would retire this year, Biden reiterated a campaign promise to place a black woman on the Supreme Court.

"The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. And that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court," Biden said on Thursday. "It's long overdue in my view. I made that commitment during the campaign for president, and I will keep that commitment."

Ensuring that a black woman fills Breyer's spot on the Supreme Court would, therefore, require Biden to nominate only black women.

What did Turley say?

Writing in an essay for Fox News, Turley explained the Supreme Court itself has already ruled that such evaluative methods are unconstitutional discrimination.

Turley wrote:

As previously discussed, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected such threshold exclusions on the basis of race or gender as raw discrimination. In 1977, the Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, that affirmative action in medical school admissions was unconstitutional. The justices declared that preferring "members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake" while adding that "this the Constitution forbids."

In response to comparisons to former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump — who both pledged to fill Supreme Court vacancies with women — Turley explained the difference is that neither president, in contrast to Biden, ruled out non-women from consideration.

"What is most striking about the Reagan-Biden comparison is how unnecessary it was for Biden to categorically rule out non-female and non-black applicants. He could have simply made clear that he wanted to add a black female to the Court and would make that a priority without promising that the first vacancy would be barred to other genders or races," Turley wrote.

Turley made clear on Twitter that Biden's criterion is "unconstitutional."

"Jen Psaki just reaffirmed that the President will only consider a black woman for the next nomination — a threshold gender and race condition that the Court itself has found unconstitutional for schools and unlawful for private businesses," Turley said on Wednesday.

Jen Psaki just reaffirmed that the President will only consider a black woman for the next nomination -- a threshold gender and race condition that the Court itself has found unconstitutional for schools and unlawful for private businesses.https://jonathanturley.org/2020/03/19/supreme-identity-politics-biden-pledges-to-only-consider-black-females-for-supreme-court-pick/\u00a0\u2026
— Jonathan Turley (@Jonathan Turley) 1643226429

Anything else?

The editors of National Review observed in an editorial how Biden's pledge ironically disqualifies otherwise qualified progressive jurists — those whom liberals would love to see on the Supreme Court — while introducing unnecessary controversy to the Supreme Court nomination process.

"In a stroke, he disqualified dozens of liberal and progressive jurists for no reason other than their race and gender. This is not a great start in selecting someone sworn to provide equal justice under the law," the National Review editorial said.

'White privilege at its ultimate finest': Man kicked off city commission after failing to address black professor as 'doctor'



The city council of Greensboro, North Carolina, voted unanimously to oust a construction contractor from the zoning commission after a tense exchange in which he failed to address a black professor as "doctor," the Greensboro News & Record reported.

Council member Sharon Hightower last week said Tony Collins exhibited "white privilege and entitlement. And what I saw last night at the zoning commission meeting was white privilege at its ultimate finest. It was absolutely disrespectful ... to dress down an African American female was unacceptable," WFMY-TV reported.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

What are the details?

Carrie Rosario is a Greensboro citizen and an associate professor of public health education at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, the station said, adding that she holds a DrPH — a professional doctoral-level degree in public health.

During the April 19 Greensboro Zoning Commission virtual meeting, Rosario introduced herself as "Dr. Rosario" to the commission before noting her opposition to a planned development near her home, WFMY reported.

Collins pushed back against Rosario's comments — and in doing so referred to her as "Mrs. Rosario."

She then jumped in and said, "It's Dr. Rosario. Thank you. sir."

But Collins persisted, again calling her "Mrs. Rosario" — and she corrected him again.

"Well, you know, I'm sorry," he replied. "Your name on here says 'Carrie Rosario.' Hi, Carrie."

"It's Dr. Rosario," she shot back. "I [wouldn't] call you Tony, so please, sir, call me as I would like to be called. That's how I'm identified."

"It doesn't really matter," Collins replied.

"It matters to me," Rosario said. "It matters to me. And out of respect I would like you to call me by the name I'm asking you to call me by. Thank you."

"Your screen says Carrie Rosario," Collins continued.

"My name is Dr. Carrie Rosario and it really speaks very negatively of you as a commissioner to be disrespectful," she said, according to the News & Record.

"I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but you're negotiating something that happened four years ago," Collins replied, according the paper.

WFMY reported that Rosario corrected Collins five times, and he never referred to her as "doctor."

'Feeling disrespected'

Later, Rosario told the station that she introduced herself as "doctor" intentionally "because as a black woman I often am dismissed in a lot of different spaces. Some of that is because I am young looking."

She added to WFMY that "unfortunately, this is not the first microaggression I have experienced. And so like many times before, it was very frustrating. You internalize that, it wears on your body. I could feel that frustration internally building. And it hurt, that I'm in this public forum trying to do right by my neighborhood, and advocate for our needs, and our voices, and hearing him, feeling disrespected and just belittled in front of the viewers of this live broadcast."

Apology accepted

Rosario said Collins reached out to apologize and that she accepted his apology, the station reported.

"He reached out on Wednesday morning. I didn't recognize the number. He did leave a voicemail message, sharing his apologies, and that he did resign from the commission," she told WFMY. "This morning I returned the phone call to Mr. Collins. He did not pick up, but I let him know I accepted his apology, because I let him know I hold no ill will against Mr. Collins. This is an enlightening moment we can learn from."

According to the Rhino Times, Collins apologized Thursday via email to the city council.

"I understand from published reports that you voted Tuesday evening to remove me from the Greensboro Zoning Commission because of my behavior at the Zoning Commission meeting Monday evening," Collins wrote, the outlet said. "I agree with you that my exchange with Dr. Rosario was out of line and accept your judgment to remove me from the commission. I have telephoned Dr. Rosario and left a message apologizing for my behavior."'

'It's Jim Crow over and over'

Hightower also called it "ultimate disrespect of black people by one that is white," the station added. "And he feels entitled and privileged to say and behave, whatever, with no consequences, and this is what we deal with as African Americans, I get this regularly from other folks, so I know how this feels. To have you dressed down in a public forum is an ultimate insult, and this is nothing but history repeating itself over and over. It's Jim Crow over and over."

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Portland official blames fear of 'white supremacists' for Lyft ride faux pas — despite living in global capital of violent Antifa militants


It's bad enough that Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty has been pushing to defund police when officers have been overwhelmed by left-wing rioters since the nation blew up over the death of George Floyd in late May.

It's bad enough that Hardesty actually called 911 on a Lyft driver who canceled her ride earlier this month after he said she was "rude and abusive" toward him, even though part of her agenda as she oversees Portland's emergency dispatch system is to pull cops from 911 calls that don't involve crimes.

But now she's blaming her fear of "white supremacists" — in a far-left city that has allowed violent Antifa militants to dominate its streets for months — for her decision to call 911.

What are the details?

Hardesty offered her take on the incident during a Portland City Council meeting Thursday, according to a KPTV-TV clip on YouTube.

"It was my responsibility to make sure I got home safe, and I did everything I could to get home safe," she said during the video session of the meeting. "When you're living in a city where white supremacists are proudly riding around in their big trucks, with their flags, and you're a black person, and somebody wants to put you on the side of the road at night? Not gonna happen."

Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty responds to Lyft incident: 'I did everything I could to get home safe'youtu.be

Hardesty presumably was referencing the Aug. 29 vehicle caravan that supporters of President Donald Trump organized in Portland — which culminated in an Antifa militant fatally shooting a pro-police, Patriot Prayer supporter in an unprovoked attack.

"He was a f***ing Nazi," a woman with a megaphone shouted during Antifa gathering in the street after the shooting. "Our community held its own and took out the trash. I'm not going to shed any tears over a Nazi."

What's the rest of the Lyft ride story?

"She was not a pleasant person," driver Richmond Frost told the Oregonian in regard to Hardesty, adding that he didn't even know who she was until after the ordeal had concluded. "That has nothing to do with her political position as a Portland council person. I'm out here doing my job. She was very disrespectful to me, made me uncomfortable. I don't feel like I have to sit in a car for anyone to have to argue unrelentingly and be rude and abusive, telling me what I have to do in my own vehicle."

On Nov. 1, Hardesty ordered a pickup from a casino resort in Washington state — and things went downhill right off the bat when there was a pickup location mixup, the Oregonian said, adding that Frost said Hardesty got angry about it.

Then the driver said as he was headed out of the casino lot, Hardesty demanded he close the windows and that she wouldn't ride with them down, the paper said, adding that the driver needed them down slightly for coronavirus safety.

"I did say, 'It's for my safety and your safety.' But that was like pouring gas on her fire," Frost recalled to the paper. "She demanded that I close that window right now. She was kind of ballistic at that point."

When Hardesty wouldn't let up, the driver told the Oregonian he took an early exit off Interstate 5 south.

"So I made a decision, it would be in the best interest for both of us to cancel the ride," Frost noted to the paper, adding that he pulled into a Chevron station.

"It's lit up like a football field. It's safe. It's warm," he told the paper. "She could order another Lyft or Uber, whatever she wants to do, and I can be done, and I can get on with my work."

But Hardesty wouldn't exit the vehicle — and called 911.

"I've got a Lyft driver that decided he would just drop me off at a filling station," Hardesty told dispatch when asked what her emergency was, according to the Oregonian, which said it obtained dispatch records through a public records request. "Well, I'm not getting out of the car, in the dark, at a filling station, not happening — all because I asked him to put the window up. I'm not leaving."

Was there violence? No. Weapons used? No.

"He says I've got to get out of his car, or he would call the police, so I decided to call for him," Hardesty added to dispatch, according to the paper.

The dispatcher told Hardesty several times the circumstance wasn't a crime but a civil matter, the Oregonian reported, adding that the vehicle was the driver's property.

But the Portland commissioner who wants to defund the police wanted police to respond to her, the paper said.

"I am not going to allow him to leave me at the side of the road," she told dispatch, the Oregonian reported.

Soon a police car pulled behind Frost's vehicle just as another Lyft driver arrived, the paper said.

"Peace restored and involved parties sent their separate ways," a 10:16 p.m. entry said on the dispatch report, the Oregonian noted.