It took less than 24 hours for someone in the Harris campaign to wake up and recognize that, as John noted here yesterday, Harris proposal for federal aid of various kinds to black men was blatantly unconstitutional. It is not even a close call: it would be struck down in 10 minutes in any district court, and the appeals courts wouldn’t waste their time with it. You would think that a former stat attorney general, and member of the Senate judiciary committee, might have some clue about this. Apparently not.
So here’s the inevitable clean-up headline from the Wall Street Journal at mid-day today:
Kamala Harris’s ‘Agenda for Black Men’ Will Be Open to All, Campaign Says
. . . While Harris’s rhetoric suggests she will provide such benefits specifically to Black men and women, it turns out that the words “and others” are doing a ton of work: The campaign says that the programs listed under the Agenda for Black Men will be open to all Americans on a race-neutral basis.
In other words (the words of Emily Litella to be precise), “Never mind.” Consider it an asterisk on Kamala’s proposal.
This is embarrassing. Harris should go back to vibes. Or vapes. Or something.
Though this spectacle of political incompetence reminds me of a late scene from Blazing Saddles (which includes a reminder of why this movie can never be shown on a college campus today), where the black men are unimpressed with race-specific pandering:
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