I recognize the turmoil but still find the thought process troubling and flawed.

A District Attorney does not make laws. They prosecute offenders. They also don’t choose who gets arrested or what crimes get focused on. They prosecute offenders.

As a DA, she had less power to make things better for black men than you are putting on her. Being a black woman in the position doesn’t change that. Best case in the day to day would be to plea things down to keep people out of jail or less time in jail. That’s probably hard to put a metric on so it’s entirely possible she’s done more than she will ever get credit for. There are black DAs across the country who are male; honestly, do you put the same expectations on them? To magically be able to fix problems in policing and lawmaking from a job that is tangential to but has no real power to make those changes?

Black men deserve equal treatment under the law as do we all. Justice should be blind. No one should be hammered by the justice system because of who they are and no one should get off because of who they are.

Black men have a problem with equal justice. That’s not right. They also have a problem with misogyny and homophobia. That’s not right either. Equality is either for all of us or none of us. There can be no trade off.

I’m sorry to say, I’m seeing a lot of misogynistic undertones in your review.

You shouldn’t vote for Kamala Harris because she’s a black woman. You shouldn’t not vote for her because she was a District Attorney while being a black woman either. You shouldn’t exclude her from consideration for not being able to make needed and wanted changes that were outside the scope of the position she held.

I urge you to closely examine why you feel the way you do and whether or not that seems right to you. All of us are subject to bias creep, we can’t help that. We can help how we react and respond to it.

The alternative is 4 more years of worsening conditions for all of us.