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Kamala Harris Goes After Joe Biden on Race
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June 28, 2019
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This was one of most dramatic moments from Thursday’s second presidential debate: a testy exchange between Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Joe Biden.
Harris, the only black candidate on tonight’s debate stage, started talking about growing up in the Bay Area in a neighborhood where one family wouldn’t let even their kids play with her. And then she turned to Biden.
“I do not believe you are racist,” she began, “and I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground. But I also I believe, and it’s personal, and it actually—it was hurtful, to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on segregation of race in this country.”
Biden, standing a few feet away, could only look on grimly as Harris pivoted to an issue she and her campaign had evidently prepared for—his work in the 1970s to block the federal government from desegregating public schools via bussing.
“There was a little girl in California, who was part of the second class to integrate her public school. And she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me,” she said.
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