01-30-2021, 06:04 AM
hal wrote:
[quote=Acer]
If he could get served at a white lunch counter in Mississippi, he was not a POC.
honestly, that's a better definition than any % one could come up with. Because that's what is really significant here - Harris is a person that would not have been served at that counter and now she's VP.
I’m sure that’s appreciated by people of color, particularly indigenous people everywhere. :biggrin:
”He was born in 1860 in Topeka, Kansas, to his white father and his mother, who was one-quarter Kaw Indian.”
After being taken in by his grandparents, Curtis grew up on a reservation from the age of five years old.
While I’m sure it wasn’t meant so, that little aphorism, is in fact about as vacuous and ignorant a statement on being a POC as I’ve read in a good, long while.
While these signposts of progress have their place, in the end, they are more symbol than substance. Grand total Black Presidents: 1. Grand total POC as VP: 2. Grand total of women VPs: 1. Hurrah.
But do I really have to go through a laundry list of the monumental hurdles our country/society still has to conquer in achieving equality and a level playing field?
Harris is a woman of massive achievements. She in no way has the slightest need to play tug of war with others striving in the same struggle over another societal pageant sash.