In the article, ” “Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Limits of Representation”, there were many discussions about the previous presidency and its impact on African Americans. The writer talked about how unexpected it was for Kamala Harris to be nominated. President Biden has had a past of criminalizing African Americans and also supporting policies that hurt minorities. Nonetheless having harris as vice president is definitely a great step going forward. Kamala Harris is the United States’ first black, south Asian vice president. It’s still a shocker to me that we’ve only had one black president and vice president. It’s modern-day and African-Americans continue to be the most heavily oppressed minority in the United States. Harris’s role as a vice president is crucial in the representation of Black women in the U.S. They are one of the most oppressed demographic and less than half live in poverty. Furthermore, the article brings up a good point regarding if things will actually change. As a former vice president and political figure, many doubt that Biden will follow his promises. Harris is said to be inexperienced as a legislator, and the writer doubts that her identity as a Black woman will actually support a good black agenda in the U.S. According to the author, when it comes to the ”limits of representation”, there continues to be a scarcity of African Americans in political power. We’ve only had two and even then, their agendas haven’t fully supported African Americans in the United States.
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I agree with you. To go furthermore into what you said, Biden enforced the Crime Bill which resulted in the over-criminalization of Black Americans. This caused families to fall apart, leaving children fatherless. We hope that his mentality has changed, but it’s difficult to look past what he has done.