Opinion: Calling Kamala Harris a ‘DEI hire’ is what bigotry looks like

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/07/opinions/kamala-harris-dei-hire-racism-2024-obeidallah/index.html

33 comments

  1. Sadly creamsicle’s racist dog whistle comments have really emboldened others across this country…

  2. To negate the fact that she was brought on because she is a black woman is to ignore Biden’s intent.

  3. Biden’s fault for picking someone based on race and gender (that they hid for his entire presidency). Now he has to deal w/ the consequences.

  4. Kinda hard to say that after explicitly stating she was brought on because race/gender.

  5. But she is a DEI hire though. She was chosen when racial tensions were quite high due to the George Floyd fiasco. He certainly didn’t choose her for her popularity.

  6. She was explicitly a DEI hire. They picked her because they wanted a black woman, not because she was skilled. They said this.

  7. Its wild how when the right-wing nuts come up with a new insult they go out of their way to apply it retroactively. 

  8. She is the Vice President. Try not to let the color of her skin get to you…

  9. Biden clearly said back in 2020 he was looking for a black woman as a veep.

    So yeah, she was a beneficiary of DEI hiring.

  10. She is a DEI hire. Name something she has accomplished without media and white house embellishment.

  11. Sayings facts is not bigotry just cause she does not like the facts

  12. I guess that in order to not be a bigot you have to just be quiet or lie in this circumstance since that is exactly why she was hired? He was very clear about what he was looking for in a VP and also his supreme court pick.

  13. I’m black. She was 100% a pander DEI hire. Stop with this holier-than-thou shit. It’s fucking insulting. These are the same people who will in the same breath say, if Biden steps down, it has to be Kamala who is nominated or they put the black vote at risk. As if my vote is determined by the candidate happening to be a similar shade of brown.

  15. Wow the comments in here are wild and borderline racist. Let’s not forget that Kamala was a US Senator before this. It’s not like they just picked a random person off the street.

  16. Absolutely disgusting, and absolutely right to call it out for what it is. NY Post should be embarrassed for having allowed it go to print.

  18. It’s not. She’s literally a very unpopular former junior senator. If you honestly believe that she would have been picked if she were a white lady you’re insane.

  19. Lord, maybe democrats *deserve* Trump.

    Didn’t Biden literally make her his VP because she was a black woman?

  21. I mean it’s not bigoted to really say, that’s a big factor in why Biden picked her as VP was to round out the cultural image of his campaign in 2020… Which would in a way yes make her a “DEI hire” … But she’s still totally qualified for being VP. She was a senator and such.

    And she’d be an okay president if Biden dies or resigns.

    But her 2020 primary performance goes a long way in saying she wouldn’t be a good replacement candidate. For him if he were to drop out of the race.

    I think these are all pretty logical arguments. One can be a “Dei hire” and still be fine or good at the job. It’s really only an insult if someone makes it into one. But that’s me.

  22. I am sorry but it is true. Her campaign was a disaster but she failed up. If we don’t want to have this conversation then let’s not participate in preferential hiring.

  23. She was completely and totally a DEI hire. I mean, it’s documented public record and couldn’t be any more clear. Biden said he was going to pick a woman, which narrowed the field down quite a bit. And then the story started coming out that, politically, it needed to be a black woman, at which point there were only a few (three I think?) plausible candidates.

  24. If Kamala thinks she is the best person on merit, she should have no issues with a mini primary. Playing the racism card to get the nomination is basically playing the race card to get special privileges

  27. I don’t want to be unkind but, at a minimum, her selection has the appearance of a DEI hire. Didn’t Biden say he would hire a black women as his VP?

  28. Anyone saying this woman got where she iwas successful in her career solely because of her race/gender is full of shit and a bigot.

    **However…**asking why and how she got to VP is a legitimate question because she brought no experience or popularity with her.

    Going from DA to a Senator for 4 years did not give her the experience that so many other options had. The part that I *still* am astounded by is she not only dropped out in the primary when she ran for president, she did so with 1-3% popularity. She announced and turned around and dropped out. The stories about her time as a DA are like 90s Republican level horrible. Once those stories broke (and she double-downed), her campaign was over.

  29. Did Biden not say she was literally picked for being a woman and being not white?

  31. Senator Elizabeth Warren would been a better pick for VP.

    Not sure why but I prefer the thoughtfulness of a law professor over a state attorney general.

  32. A “diversity hire” is someone who is hired for their identity even though they are otherwise unqualified.

    Say whatever you want about Kamala Harris. Like her, love her, hate her, despise her. Agree with her, disagree with her. Whatever.

    But you absolutely cannot call her _unqualified._ And in whatever alternate reality might exist where she isn’t qualified, good fucking lord… if she’s unqualified, Donald Trump is several orders of magnitude less qualified _even if you give him credit for having already been PotUS once._

  33. Almost positive Biden said back when picking a VP, that a black woman was not only the top but only prerequisite he publicly requested.

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