There was a little girl in California who was a part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me.
The power in the attack was not only the point being made but that she – a person affected from a group affected – was making it.
The verbal jab also aligned with the national zeitgeist at a time when calls for racial justice and the Black Lives Matter movement were ascendant.
Fast-forward to now, when Vice President Harris has served nearly a full term alongside President Biden, and she is moving into another moment when the political stars are aligned for her as the perfect messenger on a subject that has fixed Americans' attention and is central in the 2024 presidential campaign: reproductive rights.
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