Karen Bass, the congresswoman from California, is in contention to become Joe Biden’s running mate. There are good reasons for this. She is reliably liberal, she chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, and she shares a history of family loss with Biden. But she’s also the only person on Biden’s list who spent part of the 1970s working construction in Fidel Castro’s Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade, a group that has organized annual trips to Cuba for young, leftist Americans for half a century.
The Biden campaign knows about Bass’s history with the Brigade, which began as a joint venture of the Castro government and Students for a Democratic Society, the leftist, antiwar organization that gave birth to the Weather Underground terrorist group. She told Biden’s vetting committee weeks ago that this was probably going to come up. So far, it hasn’t been a deal breaker—in fact, her potential to drive up African-American votes might help in Florida among voters who traditionally haven’t been paid as much attention in the state.
It’s a reflection of the changing politics around Cuba that Biden would consider a running mate whose past might hurt his chances in Florida, where anti-Castro Cubans are still an important constituency. In 1992, being associated with the Venceremos Brigade was enough to prevent Johnnetta Cole, the then-president of Spelman College who was coordinating education policy for Bill Clinton’s transition team, from being nominated to serve as secretary of education.
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She sounds like she’s cut from the same cloth as New Zealand’s jacinda ardern.
They’re far from lurking in the shadows like the cockroaches they are as they have before to most folks and there is no lesser evil.
All this talk of “voting”, as if it’s even a thing, is preposterous.
Vote early, vote often and vote from the rooftops.
Joes Karen selection is so close he can smell her with that jew nose.
My opinion (since I refuse to vote, give my consent)? Since most “Democrats” already know that, one, Kamala Harris literally hates white people, white Dem voters know this; and two, that Harris is actually descended from Jamaican black slave owners of black slaves, and many black Dem voters know this, methinks Biden, who either believes he must choose a black female to win or knows that is “the narrative” and must follow it, knows that Bass is more likely to get him the vote than Harris would (because after all, Susan Rice and Amy Kloubacher (spelling?) are white and therefore do not qualify….
I mean, while everyone knows Harris hates whites, how many whites or blacks know that Bass is a flat-out communist? And I’ve known a few “Venceremos” folks in my lifetime…I actually went to one of the first PC colleges in the entire nation, a SUNY college on Long Island (google it and you’ll find out which one).