Harris could become first Black woman, first person of South Asian descent to be president
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She’s already broken barriers, and now Kamala Harris could soon become the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent to head a major party's presidential ticket after President Joe Biden’s ended his reelection bid.

She’s already broken barriers, and now Kamala Harris could shatter several more after President Joe Biden abruptly ended his reelection bid and endorsed her.

Biden announced Sunday that he was stepping aside after a disastrous debate performance catalyzed fears that the 81-year-old was too frail for a second term.

Harris is the first woman, Black person or person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president. If she becomes the Democratic nominee and defeats Republican candidate Donald Trump in November, she would be the first woman to serve as president.

Biden said Sunday that choosing Harris as his running mate was “the best decision I’ve made” and endorsed her as his successor.

  • octopus_inkEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    As individuals many of us do. We baked a lot of racism and bigotry into laws and government agencies, and it still has an effect, and has not been thoroughly scrubbed. This is what folks are talking about when they discuss systemic racism.

    • CableMonster
      110·
      2 months ago

      There is systemic race issues but now it has flopped the other way. People that are white are being intentionally not hired due to their race. How is this any better?

      I would understand if you guys advocated for people being preferentially hired due to coming from a hard home, but now its just based on race or other factors that dont define how hard their life is.

      • octopus_inkEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        There is systemic race issues but now it has flopped the other way. People that are white are being intentionally not hired due to their race.

        Oh this old chestnut. If you are either this uninformed or this disingenuous, it’s not going to be enjoyable for either of us to continue this discussion. Someone else can do that work with you.

        • CableMonster
          16·
          2 months ago

          So if you looked at the top 100 companies, how many white people do they hire now? They are directly not hiring white people, this is just a fact, if you dont like it then maybe you shouldnt be advocting for crazy policies based on what people look like.

            • CableMonster
              23·
              2 months ago

              Bloomberg did not me and its in 2021 the S&P 100 hired about 300k people, and 94% of them were POC.

              • AA5B@lemmy.world
                3·
                2 months ago

                So it looks like you’re talking about this

                While it does make that claim, you might also note phrases like:

                That still leaves most companies in our dataset lopsided, with White people holding a disproportionate share of high-paying jobs at S&P 100 companies

                Many laid off in the pandemic’s early days were people of color, who were rehired when demand bounced back.

                Retirements also surged that year, and older workers are more likely to be White.

                Note also they define “people of color” as “black, Asian, Hispanic, or other”

                So the article that makes that claim basically says non-whites had been laid off and were re-hired. Pre-dominantly white people were able to retire early, and people of color are still way underrepresented in positions of authority

                • CableMonster
                  23·
                  2 months ago

                  Are you claiming that this data does not show preferential hiring of POC over white people?

                  • AA5B@lemmy.world
                    3·
                    2 months ago

                    I am just reading beyond the headline.

                    I see that they describe this as a one time reaction to the recovery after Covid and is hiring back the mainly non-whites who had been laid off. Most importantly they included lots of data about how non-whites are still way underrepresented relative to the actual population after this one time event.

                    So, no it does not. It appears to be showing a preference for employees who had been previously laid off

          • octopus_inkEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Unsubstantiated assertion of fact, submitted in argument with a position I didn’t take, as expected. Like I said, maybe someone else wants to have a tiresome conversation about basic reality with you that will end with you strutting around like you’ve won something no matter how it actually unfolds, but I’m not that guy.

            • CableMonster
              25·
              2 months ago

              If you wanted the data, sure I just had to do a quick google to remember the actual numbers. So in 2021 the the S&P 100 hired about 300k people, and 94% of them were POC. I get that its uncomfortable to see that sort of things happening, but those poor white that had a hard life have a much harder time getting a job because of their skin color.