Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris made an appearance in an interview where she claimed that the Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election was a clear indication that U.S.’s ‘Achilles heel’ is indeed race.
“[T]hey decide to attack what is the strongest pillar of a democracy, which is free and open elections … And they tried out a bunch of different things. And you know what caught heat? The issue of race. So Russia exposed America’s Achilles heel,” Harris said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“And all of a sudden then, guess what? For those who want to marginalize the conversation about race and racial inequities and say, ‘Oh, well, that’s identity politics or that’s this or that’s that.’ Guess what? Now it is also a national security issue. And we need to deal with it. And we need to deal with it,” she added.
Harris added that “racism is real in this country” and that it predated the Trump presidency, The Hill reported.
“The reality is that these are forms of hate that are not new to our country, which have, in the history of our country, taken lethal proportion. And still today take on lethal proportion. And so I believe that the conversation has to be about how we are going to speak truth about the history, and then address it,” she told NBC’s Chuck Todd.
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