Kamala Harris is going to face a tough time

It's one thing to be selected as the first black woman - or woman of colour - to be a vice-presidential candidate. But quite another to endure the sort of limelight she is already receiving especially from Donald R Trump. Kamala Harris is a tough lady and I think she will be fine. She would't have accepted the job without having gone through in her mind all the likely repercussions. But Trump really did start off the anti-Kamala campaign in true style, calling her "nasty" and "horrible". He really does have a limited vocabulary when it comes to personal abuse. I'm sure the senator and former attorney general of California can cope with that. But what I fear is that being the first woman of colour to be a potential Vice-President of the United States she is going to face a lot more of that sort of personal attack. Trump is already saying she shouldn't be allowed to stand as vice-presidential candidate because her parents are immigrants of Jamaican and Asian origin. Well we went through all that nonsense when Barack Obama was running for president. Trump failed then to convince the American people that Obama was a non-American and he will fail again I'm sure to undermine Kamala Harris's eligibility to be the next vice president. Nevertheless there is something wholly distasteful and, dare I say it, racist, about the attacks so far on Biden's choice of running-mate. I'm sure Trump and co would have attacked anyone whom Biden selected as his vice-presidential choice. But Biden chose Kamala Harris and she is a black woman. The attacks on her personally are therefore dishonourable and....totally unsurprising!!