By Mwizenge S. Tembo, Ph. D.
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
I walked into the house. The TV was on. I saw the huge red “Breaking News” letters with the loud sound effect. The announcer said: “President Biden has just dropped out of the 2024 Presidential election”. I slowly sat down on the edge of my couch shaking my head in disbelief. This was Sunday July 21st 2024. My watch said 2:15pm. I was stunned.
It was exactly three weeks since the June 27th President Biden debate debacle in which he had performed so poorly. He had been defying his Democrat Party calls for him to step down. After Biden had released to the media the letter of his decision to drop out of the 2024 campaign, barely twenty minutes later he released another message that he was endorsing Vice-President Kamala Harris as the Democrat Presidential candidate. It was as if the election campaign and Biden’s announcement was a huge pile of wood and grass on which he had poured some gasoline. His announcement that he was endorsing Vice-President Kamala Harris as candidate was lighting a match that he tossed on the pile.
The news cycles were on fire as TV anchors were breathlessly reporting the latest development. Act/Blue election arm campaigns for Democrats raised 30 million dollars in just 2 hours. On that Sunday alone they raised 50 million dollars from small donors. 44,000 black women met on zoom to raise campaign funds. 40,000 black men met on line later in the week to raise campaign funds for Kamala Harris. Over 100,000 white women met on zoom to raise campaign funds for Kamala Harris. During this second week, thousands of white men will meet on zoom to do fundraising. Over a week later, the huge fires of enthusiasm for the political campaign excitement for Harris are spreading all over the country.
During Harris’s tenure as Vice-President over the last three and half years, she gave many public speeches and interviews. Often, she laughed. In one of the numerous speeches she made references to falling from a coconut tree. Trump, Fox News, Republicans, and the right-wing ecosystem did not like her laughing. They wanted to use the laughter video clips as a political weapon to embarrass and to humiliate her. They were portraying her as a laughing clown who could not be taken seriously. This has totally back fired for Trump, Fox News, and the Republicans. I absolutely love her laughter as a refreshing change. This country needs more laughter among its citizens and especially leaders.
Millennials are the American population that is between 28 to 43 years old. Generation Z are between 12 and 27 years. Memes about Harris’ candidacy immediately organically exploded on the internet. The memes included coconuts and Kamala is Brat. Millennials and Generation Z constitute 93.39% of the population and 166 million Americans under the age of 40 make up 50.7% of the population. If this enthusiasm among the new young people translates into voting, the young people will save our democracy. Harris is promising an optimistic message rejecting our past 8 years of political divisiveness and hate and instead to look to a better and brighter future of love, prosperity, and return to human dignity.
What has been revealed during the last 8 days is that America may be the luckiest, most resilient and blessed nation on this earth. President Lincoln saved the Union through the Civil War of the 1860s that killed six hundred thousand people. Jim Crow was defeated with the Civil Right Acts of the 1960s. If President Biden and the Democrats had lost in the November elections, the nation was going to end as it was sure to degenerate into an authoritarian state as Project 2025 was going to be implemented. One cannot say that anymore. There is hope.
The hope is that all citizens of the red and blue states, peace and prosperity loving Americans of all police departments, workers, churches, college students, democrats, and what is left of the non-maga Republicans, those who hate the principles of Project 25, will all vote for Kamala Harris and the Democrats. We will be saving democracy, women’s reproductive freedoms and voting for freedom writ large.
I am rooting for the one who will stop the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars. And slow down the chimbwi chiyupe lifestyles.
Unfortunately, that person is tRump!
I said it before and will say it now, trumpet is a rear exit of a sick fat dying pig.
Unfortunately, you’re ignorant.
Africans! How do you get stunned by the resignation of a slavemaster president thousands of kilometers away! See how this fits precisely into Malcolm X’s narrative about the house negro and the field negro?
The house negro who enjoyed eating the master’s leftovers mourned the burning of his master’s house shouting “Our house is on fire!” and fetching buckets of water to put out the fire. Not the field negro who labored in severe heat and cold for nothing. He would pray for wind
Kikikikikiki shibu kenny ba mwisenge Tembo nabo! Awe mwe!
I don’t support either Democrats or Republicans. Democrats wear a plastic smile and use the black race to advance their LGBTQ agenda which in turn destroys the traditional black family not only in America but worldwide. The case of Obama reminds me of how we all rallied around this man just because he was was black and yet we did know his LGBTQ agenda. His 1st trip to Africa was to Egypt where he declared that Islam is a peaceful religion. Nonsense! Was it Islam that voted him to power? Trump and MAGA are open racists. I would rather have a self confessed racist. At least I know what I am dealing with. No pretence. One last thing. I agree with Trump on one thing; a man is a man & a woman is a woman.
Speak for yourself “We all rallied around Obama?”
And know this: an open racist or a hidden racist are all the same so Trump cant be preferred because he insults us openly. Atase! What kind of slave acceptance is this? double standards on all your oppressors who are the same whether they be a secret racist or an open racist.
@Katanga indeed it would be a ridiculous tragedy if a slave would choose which master he should work for when his preoccupation should be freedom.
@Swahili
I agree with you 100%…Democrats and Republicans are all the same…Democrats are even worse because they’re pretenders….Kamala Harris hates black people she’s just using the Black race for her Political gains
Kamala Harris has always identified herself as white though she’s Indian and now all of a sudden she is ” black”….like Trump said he only discovered that Kamala is black just recently…all along Kamala was “white” or “Indian”…..but not black and when she was a Prosecutor in California she sent alot of Black men to Jail because of her hate for the black race….
Iwe, Trump is a convicted felon, kawalala.
Is there a race called Indian? Are Pakistanis, Srilankans, Bangladeshis all of the Indian race?
This is now the same nonsense playing out in SA. We are so eager to scrutinise when all we need to do is go back to definitions. There is the one-drop concept in the Americas when it comes to defining race. Suddenly we are vacating that to peddle nonsense. Kamala is black in the USA, coloured in places like Zambia and SA, and Mullato in South America. Kwasila. The question now is to vote or not to vote for her.
They are extremely envious people chauvinist pigs too who are jealous of a woman climbing an apex that they can’t. That’s the only thing motivating them to pull her down. Kamala has always said she is half black and half indian. Watch the video thatTrump is flippantly using to bash her and she says she is half Indian. Her father is a black Jamaican. She has never said she is white. Who in his right mind would believe Trump? A racist who only wants black votes to be in power not to help blacks.
Very true @BM. Trump is a racist and one of the biggest liars World politics has ever seen. If you are fooled by Trump you must either be very dumb or a racist. Did you listen to the first debate with Biden where he stated that the immigrants were taking black jobs? If you are naïve you wont see the racism there. Trump is saying the jobs illegal immigrants take are garbage collection. cleaning, and other menial jobs. For him blacks are only fit for manual labour.
Listen to the black girl gymnast who has just won a record number of gold medals at the French Olympics and the message she is passing to Trump. She is retorting to Trump’s trashy thinking
@ Katanga. I refuse to use derogatory terms like atase. Stick with your Karmala. No stress. If David Livingstone came to Zambia insulting us openly, our ancestors would most probably have not been colonised at all, because we would have picked up on his intentions right away and fought back somehow. Continue with the homosexual and gender ambiguity of the Democrats until the day the day the chickens will come home to roost in your own family. I am assuming you are a straight family oriented man or woman. Obviously we are miles apart if you are gay in one form or another.