In the debate, kamala Harris spoke with pain of the experience of having white parents chase the white children playing with her home. I alsoremember, as a :white: child, having a Black father chase Black boys home, saying (probably correctly) that if I got hurt, the Black boys would be blamed.

What Harris does not seem to understand is that we all -- black and white -- are damaged and retarded by racism. The entire south is a backward region because racism has limited its cultural, intellectual, moral, and economic development. I say this as a southern native son.