Shouldn’t The President Be Confident?

When she’s a Black woman, apparently not…

Rosalyn Morris
4 min readSep 21, 2024

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I ask this because Arkansas governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has a problem with Vice President Kamala Harris’ “lack of humility.” In continuity with the Republican party’s theme of maligning women who don’t have biological children, Sanders attributes Harris’ “lack of humility” to her not being a mother.

As reported by Detroit Free Press

In her remarks Tuesday night at the Dort Financial Center hockey arena in Flint before Trump joined her onstage, Huckabee Sanders began by saying that while she was proud of being Arkansas’ first woman governor and White House press secretary, “the greatest title I have is that of being a mom” to three children.

She then said her children keep her humble, remembering a time when she was preparing her daughter for a daddy-daughter dance and becoming emotional when the girl said to her, “It’s OK, mommy, one day you can be pretty, too.”

“So my kids keep me humble,” Huckabee Sanders continued. “Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.”

Girl, bye…

I, for one, don’t care what Sanders considers her greatest title or accomplishment to be. To be honest, I don’t care about her personal life. What does…

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