The problem with the left is they destroy everything, including their own, to push their agenda. Harris, who wanted to appear tough, used ‘harmful’ rhetoric instead of presenting reforms or policies she achieved over the years she had served in a government position.
Even her party disowns her, demanding she tone down her language.
In a recent letter obtained by The Hill, more than 160 leaders affected by incarceration and criminalization appealed to Harris to stop using harmful terms around the criminal justice system and stop presenting her competition against former President Donald Trump as “tough-on-crime prosecutor” versus a “criminal.”
“Words like ‘criminal’ and ‘felon’ paint with a broad brush that stains more than 70 million Americans with criminal records including the 1 in 3 Black men who have felony convictions,” the letter states.
Harris was a prosecutor and California attorney general, which she achieved by sleeping with a married man, former mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown. She then rose to become a Senator and has been touting her record of prosecuting, mostly Blacks who use marijuana, repeatedly.
“In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds — predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain,” Harris said when launching her campaign. “So, hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump’s type.”
Among the signatories of the letter was Norris Henderson, co-founder and steering committee member of the Formerly Incarcerated Convicted People and Families Movement; DeAnna Hoskins, president and CEO of JustLeadershipUSA, an organization dedicated to criminal justice reform; and members of the National Council for Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls.
The letter asserts that Harris can match Trump without using the “outdated fear-mongering” rhetoric that “dehumanizes us and opens the door to the ridicule and slander that has long plagued us since the Black Codes” or in Kamala’s words, “what can be, unburdened by what has been.”
“Shouting ‘felon!’ without acknowledging the injustices taking place daily in courts, prisons, and jails depresses the tremendous electoral potential of engaging with the tens of millions of us who have criminal convictions and the even greater number of American voters who love us,” the advocates pointed in their letter.
Leaders of these social justice groups hoped that Harris would push to create a criminal justice reform platform, as there is “nothing less than freedom on the line.”
Something she had not done, during her term as attorney general in California, as Senator, and as Vice President of the United States.
