Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama’s vice president Joe Biden selected California Senator Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate on Tuesday. Harris, 55, is the first Black woman and the first person of Indian heritage to be chosen for a presidential ticket. She is the fourth woman in US history to run on the presidential ticket.

The two candidates will appear together in Wilmington, Del on Wednesday. In choosing Harris as his running mate, Biden is effectively paving the way for another presidential run by Sen. Harris, who dropped out of the 2020 presidential primary race in December, 2019.

Daughter of Immigrant Academics

Sen. Harris was raised in Oakland and Berkeley, California — the daughter of two academics: an Indian-American mother and a father from Jamaica. The vice presidential candidate attended Howard University in Washington, DC and was the Attorney General of California before being elected to the Senate in 2016 as the second Black woman.

Fierce Debate and Analytical Skills

Kamala Harris is generally considered to be highly well-informed with a deep knowledge base on a wide variety of critical issues. Her Senate Judiciary questioning of prospective Trump Attorney General Bill Barr went digital and has never failed to inspire Democrats. It’s an understatement to say that Harris has strong debate and fierce prosecutorial skills. Donald Trump should be happy that he will not face Sen. Kamala Harris on the debate stage.

AOC shares key press analysis of today’s historic announcement that puts Sen. Kamala Harris on the 2020 Democratic ticket.

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Finally, a truthful, fair and balanced article about the reality of bipolar disdorder on the person who has it -- Kanye West, in this case; -- the spouse or partner -- Kim Kardashian; and the community at large.

Haven Kimmel, writing for Vanity Fair, addresses Kanye's community of enablers; those who judge Kim K (boy, have I been reading those comments, that this is her fault for not understanding and supporting Kanye's brilliance); and collateral damage to the community at large

In this case, that community would be women generally -- now that Planned Parenthood is Kanye West's boogey man (This extension is my own view, not the author's).

Poor women, in particular, are the innocent victims of Kanye's wrath, since PP is the primary source of health care for poor women in America, at a time when abortion is at an all-time low.

As someone who knows this bipolar condition very well and the total devastation it can wreak untreated on family as a daughter and in marriage as a wife (a common transition statistically), I have plunged into despair listening to Kanye West become the self-appointed God in charge of women's bodies this week.

What's sadder is to watch his fans and friends behave as if "poor Kanye" is the only focus of community concern. And that Kim K is somehow responsible for this situation, and now white women, in particular, with our embrace of so-called racial genocide in our support for Planned Parenthood.

Note that many men and women on Kanye's Twitter are pushing back against his attacks. I want to acknowledge that fact.

Poor women can barely support living in Trumplandia with their existing children. For Kanye West to wield his metaphorical axe against them in his own public spectacle is borderline too much to handle.

Kanye West has no right, no business telling women to have as many babies as possible. It IS NOT HIS BUSINESS.

Creatives are particularly unwilling to accept treatment for the disease, believing that anything that threatens to diminish creativity is not acceptable to them. And protecting their genius is more important than destroying the lives of others, in the eyes of many modern people.

Kanye's roadkill counts for NOTHING. And if I read one more article from a health professional who writes all about how we must support Kanye and find compassion WITHOUT mentioning this larger issue of his victims, I will spit tacks, if you get my drift.

This article is fair, balanced and digs deeper than most I've read. ~ Anne