After weeks of declaring “election fraud” and claiming that he had “won big” on Monday, November 23, President Donald Trump used Twitter – which seems to be his only source of life – to announce to the world that he had instructed US General Service Administrator Emily Murphy to formally start the constitutionally required process of the presidential transfer of power. While he is yet to have conceded the race, that he has undoubtedly lost, this act in allowing the Biden-Harris administration in gaining the correct resources makes it demonstrably and abundantly clear that Joseph R, Biden Jr will become the next president of the United States. Given his previous role as Vice President to war criminal Barack Obama, many people know of the future president but his unprecedented VP pick, Kamala Harris is much less known – so who is she?
Kamala Harris a first-generation American, born to Indian and Jamaican immigrant parents, was born and raised in sunny California. Unfounded for many immigrating to the US both of her parents were both highly educated and were both recipients of doctorates in differing biological sciences. As a result of the exceptional educational achievements of her parents, it comes as no surprise to see that it was invaluably important in her household; she was thus bussed to a more prosperous school to desegregate education – ironic to see that a child who was bussed to school became running mates with a man who spoke against desegregating schools.
Unfortunately, her parents divorced at 7 and she thus moved to Canada and attended both primary and high school in Quebec. In 1989 Harris graduated with a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the law and was thus admitted to the California state bar – allowing her to legally practice law – one year later. That same year in the county of Alameda she was hired as the deputy district attorney, of which she was granted the nomenclature of “an able prosecutor on [their] way up”. In what one could only describe as cronyism Harris was appointed to a position on Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board by her then-boyfriend. In 2004 Harris became the district attorney of San Francisco and in just three years of being in office the conviction rate rose by 26% - which does nothing but attest to her campaign that had been described as “forceful”.
Of the positive things that the VP-elect did as district attorney: she declared that life without parole is much more ethical and fiscally friendly than being sentenced to death and despite being pressured many times to use the death penalty, she did not. Similarly, she started a Hate crime unit after the tragic and rancorous killing of 17-year-old transgender teenager Gwen Araujo, their murders pleaded and stated they were acting in the ‘gay panic defence’ – a legal loophole allowing for a person to kill an LGBTQ+ individual under the pretence of having been scared and needing to defend yourself. Harris was strongly opposed to this and thus backed a bill in honour of Arajuo forcing the California penial code to force jurors to not act with bias, sympathy, prejudice, or public opinion.
While these things present the soon to be first female Vice President as an upstanding person and a potentially exemplary member of the Executive Branch Kamala Harris is not the sarcastically coined ‘girl boss’ that many people seem to make her out to be. Ms Harris is as capricious and vaingloriously iniquitous as are of all of her kind – the bastardized prosecuting community that she has spent her life being a part of.
Decriminalising sex work is “completely ridiculous”. In 2008, Harris opposed a proposition that would decriminalise sex work and reduce the amount of police force fighting it, she was resolutely opposed to this proposition citing that it would “put a welcome mat out for pimps and prostitutes”. In this demonstrably gross attack at people who are forced to use precarious means to help supplement their life is a direct attack on people’s freedom of choice and ability to live by their own means. Synonymously this decriminalisation allowed for the HIV/AIDS problem plaguing America to continue – thus killing thousands, many specifically being Black Trans women given data sources state that 40% of these women result to prostitution to expunge their problems.
However, Harris’ arguable aberrance towards transgender individuals does not stop there. Michelle Norsworthy was a Trans woman, wrongly, incarcerated in a male prison – the wrongdoing being her imprisonment in a male prison not her being wrongly committed a crime. On trying to receive gender reassignment surgery, Norsworthy was most rancorously denied at the egregious hands of the then-attorney general of California. As a result of this Ms Norsworthy had been explained to be “escalating in distress and suicidality”. Despite being pressed on many matters Harris is still yet to unequivocally declare that she agrees in synonymous health care for transgender individuals.
Many people have rejoiced in the fact that there will soon be a female in the White House and a black woman at that. In this the year that we saw a necessary explosion of the Black Lives Matter movement, one would assume that Kamala Harris as an African-American would be a Vice President with a record that, would not be completely perfect, but would not contain issues regarding members of her own race. However, the nomenclature previously granted to her as “capricious and vaingloriously iniquitous” does not fail: Ms Harris in her many roles as a prosecutor incarcerated Black men at a unfoundedly high rate for the most minor cannabis offences – offences that would not always be prosecuted in such a curt nature.
While we can all exhale in relief at the extirpation of the Trump administration, we must not invite the Biden-Harris administration with the loving open arms as they are people with faultless and exceptional records – as they are not as perfect as some seem to make them out to be. In this changing modern-society, it comes as no surprise that people are elated at the first women in the White House – in this the transition of power of the Trump administration and the Biden we can all be safe in knowing that times are getting better but we must not fighting for what is right, we must not stop fighting against our elected leaders despite their seeming agreeance with our opinions, and we must not forget to pay attention to all that our leaders do and say.
