AOC and lawmakers of color reveal concerns about Kamala Harris facing racist and sexist attacks

Democratic female lawmakers of color have revealed they are worried about Vice President Kamala Harris facing racist and misogynistic attacks after she all but became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

President Joe Biden endorsed Harris to be the Democratic nominee for president after he announced that he was stepping down from the race on Sunday.

Since then, Harris has received overwhelming support from nearly every faction of the Democratic Party and appears to have clinched enough delegates to become the presumptive party nominee.

But some Democrats fear that she will be subjected to racist and sexist attacks given she would be the first Black and Indian woman to become the presidential nominee of a major party.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who previously revealed her fears that the same forces that wanted to muscle out Biden would also push out Harris, said that Democrats and the electorate should be aware in general about such attacks.

“As a an elected official, who is a prominent woman of color, I've seen a lot,” she told The Independent.

“And I know that the vice president has seen a lot and so it's going to be very important that I think we brace ourselves for some of the unfair misogynistic, and racial undertones, overtones, explicit attacks on implicit attacks that she may be subjected to, and it's important for us to keep our eyes open for what is fair, but also what is unfair.”

Representative Nikema Williams of Georgia, like Harris, is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, one of the historically Black “Divine Nine” Greek-letter organizations.

“I'm a black woman serving in this body of Congress and so we all know what comes with this work,” Williams, who is also the