I don’t even need to hype it up really. Here’s the full 34 minute interview y’all.
Props to Rachel Scott, because the way she kept pushing that idiot to answer her questions without getting up and slapping the piss out of him? She so much better than me!
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s rewind just a tad because the whole thing was so messy and I was honestly disappointed in the NABJ (along with a ton of Black journalists). Kamala wanted to speak at their convention, but she needed to do it virtually, or else attend an event at a later time. They declined those options and instead got Donald Trump, who quickly used this as a cudgel against Kamala on his bootleg social media platform.
The Vice President’s schedule is always public, and she wasn’t able to participate in this interview because she had plans to pay respects to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee during her memorial services and celebration. She didn’t see the need to adjust her schedule to chat with the NABJ, and that’s why Trump was sitting up there solo making a complete ass of himself. My personal favorite that I would like to highlight is this section where Trump asserts that Kamala just recently “turned Black.”
Can we just be clear on one thing here? Republicans are only concerned with how Black Kamala is because she’s a powerful woman. Republicans do not care about your ancestry.com when the cops are saying “put your hands on your head and turn around.” This preoccupation with Kamala’s Blackness, a woman who went to a Historically Black College & University, a woman who is a member of the oldest Black sorority, a woman who has claimed her Blackness since way before most of us even knew who she was, a woman who would have been bought and sold just like the rest of us 160 years ago, is a fake issue being puffed up by Trump (and the Russians) to sow more discord and play on divisions we already have about racial conversations that should stay in house.
If you can walk through a gated white community at night in a Republican area and not be uneasy, you don’t get to weigh in on who is Black and who isn’t. The reason your ancestors created race in the first place (yes, created, out of thin air, because this classification of people was developed and fine-tuned once Europeans needed human capital to work their stolen lands) was to separate Whiteness from Everything Else. Your ancestors created one-drop laws and pubic hair examinations to definitively “prove” deviations away from white. Y’all did that, so we had to accept everyone you kicked out of your club. Mariah Carey is Black because y’all made up those rules. Wentworth Miller is Black because y’all said any deviation away from whiteness can no longer be white, so he’s Black by default. You wanna change the rules now because it suits you better to pretend Kamala isn’t Black?
Please.
But I digress, because what’s important here is, we finally have definitive proof for why Donald Trump does not want to debate Kamala Harris: intelligent Black women rattle him to the core and he will come loose at the seams like a busted can of biscuits. The Kamala Team knows it, and that’s why they’re drilling into that September 10th date.
I know I said earlier in the cycle that I wouldn’t actually watch any debates, because I cannot stand to hear that barely sentient tangerine string words together, but I’ll admit — I was highly entertained by how terrible this was and I love watching stupid people make an ass of themselves. Why else do you think I’ve been watching The Real Housewives for two decades now?
(Team Margaret, btw. Teresa can eat rocks.)
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