The Brown Voters Failed by American Democracy
Words by Anonymous
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“I am speaking now. If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.”
The crowd erupts. Here’s the Kamala they had been waiting to see. With a hand resting expectantly on the podium’s edge and an unflinching gaze zeroed in on the protesters who had interrupted her evening speech, she possessed the air of a steely-eyed schoolteacher who could shut down a classroom disruption with one stern look. No wonder the audience ate it up, their collective roar of approval drowning out the protesters’ chants about the ongoing genocide in Gaza as security hauls them out of the Michigan rally. Her commanding rhetoric hardened by her years as California’s attorney general and refined by her service as the country’s first South Asian senator, Kamala’s unwavering self-assuredness has certainly excited a Democratic base that had been shifting nervously in its seat. Gone was the grandfatherly lethargy of Joe Biden, his meandering whispers replaced by an articulate, authoritative dynamo that harkened back to Obama’s “Yes We Can” virality.