Public Advocate Tish James is running for New York State Attorney General this year and appears to be the prohibitive favorite. She's a racked up endorsements and support, and appears to be, at the moment, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination.
Tish is a successful lawyer, city councilwoman, and now Public Advocate. I saw her at a forum several years ago and her fierce intelligence blazed through. Tish is a smart, driven woman, and the state'll be lucky to have her as AG.
But not only will she have to win the election but, as a black woman running for high office, she'll have to put up with tons of ... crap.
Like this article from Politico: supposedly a comprehensive look at her career, it's in fact a hatchet job, a snarky and mean-spirited attack on her qualifications and motives. It accuses her accomplishing nothing (while, bizarrely at the same time, acknowledges that several bills she's sponsored), of lying, of being a cypher.
It's an absolutely vicious, hateful smear-job, and I can't imagine a white male politician (and certainly not a Republican) ever having to deal with something like this. Certainly the press hasn't been this tough on Trump or Cuomo as they are on Tish James.
If you ever wonder if black people, and women, and black women in particular, have it tougher trying to climb the "greasy pole" of power, this article should leave you with no doubts.
It's an absolutely vicious, hateful smear-job, and I can't imagine a white male politician (and certainly not a Republican) ever having to deal with something like this. Certainly the press hasn't been this tough on Trump or Cuomo as they are on Tish James.
If you ever wonder if black people, and women, and black women in particular, have it tougher trying to climb the "greasy pole" of power, this article should leave you with no doubts.
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