• Kamala Harris, Race, and the Presidency; Plus, Louisa Thomas on the Paris Olympics

  • Jul 29 2024
  • Length: 23 mins
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Kamala Harris, Race, and the Presidency; Plus, Louisa Thomas on the Paris Olympics

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  • One of the big questions about Vice-President Harris’s candidacy is undoubtedly race. She would not be the first Black President. “I think that most times when people bring Kamala Harris and Barack Obama into the same conversation, they are kind of mistaken—it’s just this kind of wish-casting,” Vinson Cunningham says. But “what they do have in common is a Black father who is not from America. And this brings all kinds of strange things into being . . . in creating a Black American identity.” Cunningham and fellow staff writer Doreen St. Félix discuss Harris’s complicated identity as the child of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, and more.

    (This segment is an excerpt from a longer conversation on The Political Scene.)

    Plus, the New Yorker sports correspondent Louisa Thomas talks with David Remnick about some of the unusual venues of the Paris Olympics—from the Place de la Concorde and the supposedly cleaned-up Seine to a small reef village in Tahiti.
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