Why do they really dislike Kamala Harris? Race and gender the real reason

By Ryan ColemanSpecial to the AFRO The vice presidency was described by the first man to hold the office, John Adams, as “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”& Ryan Coleman, president of the Randallstown NAACP, speaks on the deluge of negative opinions lodged at the new Democratic 2024 presidential candidate, vice President Kamala Harris. (Courtesy photo) Credit: Courtesy PhotoOriginally, the runner-up in the presidential vote — to be carried out by the decidedly un-democratic Electoral College — was to be named vice president.& The idea of a distinguished politician being vice president for nearly two hundred years, and a series of hacks and non-entities occupying the vice presidency became the norm, rather than the exception. If I polled average Americans on three legislative accomplishments directed by the last three vice presidents, Mike Pence, Joe Biden and Dick Cheney, I feel confident that 90 percent of them would barely be able to name two.& This is for a reason. The vice president’s role is to stand in the background, to be the tie-breaking vote for the Senate, and to be the ambassador to foreign nations, but never to overshadow the president. So...