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A familiar refrain as Kamala Harris faces attacks directed at gender identity SUSAN MILLIGAN Geraldine Ferraro was basking in her ground-breaking political promotion in 1984, venturing out on her first campaign trip since thenDemocratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale announced her as his running mate. She was in Mississippi, meeting with farmers and discussing what the state produced – catfish, crayfish, grapes, blueberries. Ferraro said she grew blueberries, too. “Can you bake a blueberry muffin?” Jim Buck Ross, then the state’s agriculture commissioner, asked the then-48-year-old Ferraro, whom he had called “young lady.” Ferraro said she could, then countered, “Can you?” Ross offered an answer that would presage the sort of gender bias she would continue to experience in the campaign. “Down here in Mississippi, the men don’t cook,” Ross said, before going on to brag about how Mississippi had produced three Miss Americas. It’s been 36 years since Ferraro, then a congresswoman from New York, forced Americans to consider the possibility of having a woman stand one heartbeat away from the presidency. A lot of progress has been made since then for women seeking elected office. EMILY’s List, a group dedicated to electing Democratic, pro-abortion rights
candidates, was founded the following year. Americans went on to elect record numbers of women to office, and a woman in 2007 became the first female speaker of the House. In 2008, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin became the first woman to be on a GOP presidential ticket, and eight years later Hillary Clinton became the first major party presidential nominee. But Sen. Kamala Harris of California is finding she is still the target of sexist – as well as racist – attacks as the presumptive Democratic nominee seeks to become the first woman, first Black person and first Indian American to serve as vice president. And while the tropes and snide remarks about Harris aren't as direct as the but-can-she-cook sexism Ferraro experienced, Harris is being hit with a slew of attacks directed not at her qualifications or skills, but at her personality and identity. President Donald Trump immediately deemed her “nasty” after Joe Biden on Aug. 8 announced that Harris would be his pick for vice president, a name Trump has frequently used to criticize women who criticize him. Two days later, Trump followed up with more insults characterizing Harris as not sufficiently nice or compliant – common complaints women
Senator Kamala Harris greets supporters after speaking at a town hall at the Eastern State Penitentiary on Oct. 28, 2019 in Philadelphia. PHOTO: MARK MAKELA/GETTY IMAGES experience as they seek power in the corporate and political worlds. Harris is a “madwoman,” Trump told a Fox interviewer, as well as “condescending” and “angry.” While many Democrats were tough on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, during the jurist’s confirmation hearings, “she was the angriest of the group,” he said. Trump appeared to give credence to a theory among right-wing activists that Harris – the daughter of immigrants who were not citizens at the time of her birth – is not a
“natural born citizen” eligible to be vice president. “I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements. … I have no idea if that’s right,” Trump told reporters after being asked about the theory. “And, by the way, the lawyer that wrote that piece is a very qualified, very talented lawyer,” Trump said, referring to a Newsweek column questioning whether Harris, who was born in California, meets the constitutional requirements to be
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Henrico County to support nonprofit’s restoration of historic Woodland Cemetery Henrico County will contribute $25,000 to a local nonprofit organization to support its acquisition of historic Woodland Cemetery and will provide ongoing assistance in fundraising for grounds maintenance. Woodland Cemetery, at 2300 Magnolia Rd. in eastern Henrico, was established in 1916 for the interment of Black residents during a time of strict segregation. With an estimated 30,000 graves across its 29 acres, Woodland Cemetery is the final resting place for such prominent individuals as tennis champion and civil rights activist Arthur Ashe Jr. and the Rev. John Jasper, founder of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Richmond, as well as doctors, dentists, bankers and a woman who spied for the Union during the Civil War. With little or no funding for its maintenance, much of the cemetery has become overwhelmed and damaged by vegetative growth and vandalism in recent decades. The nonprofit Evergreen Restoration Foundation recently purchased the property with plans to restore the grounds as a place of reverence and honor for those buried there. In a recent news conference at Woodland Cemetery, Marvin Harris, executive director of the Evergreen Restoration Foundation, thanked Henrico officials, donors and volunteers who have worked to restore the area’s Black cemeteries. He also credited a group of classmates from Maggie L. Walker High School’s class of 1967 with getting the effort started in 2015 with a focus on Maggie L. Walker’s grave at nearby Evergreen Cemetery. “We’re going to get this under control,” Harris said of conditions at Woodland Cemetery. “We’re going
Frank J. Thornton speaks at last week’s news conference at Woodland Cemetery. to bring this back to where it used to be, with the help of the county. Henrico has really embraced this project a thousand percent. They make it a lot easier for me to stand up here right now and indicate to the public that we will get the process done.” To support the effort, Henrico is awarding a $25,000 grant to the nonprofit to offset acquisition costs and is pledging additional assistance as the group pursues funding from foundations, corporations and others for the cemetery’s perpetual care. Henrico also is backing the efforts of Del. Delores L. McQuinn, D-70th, to ensure state support for the maintenance of Woodland and other historic Black cemeteries. Fairfield District Supervisor Frank J. Thornton thanked Harris for contacting him about his vision for a restored Woodland Cemetery and for working with the county to make it happen. “Let this be a watershed moment, not just for this cemetery but for other Black cemeteries,” Thornton said. “Just as the Middle Ages
inspired us with the Romanesque church and godly cathedrals, we’re here this morning to give recognition to the revival of Black cemeteries, which are repositories of history and museums.” Henrico County Manager John A. Vithoulkas credited Thornton with taking him on a tour of the area’s neglected Black cemeteries about eight years ago, not long after he became county manager. “I grew up in this region, and I had no idea – no idea – that cemeteries had been abandoned and history lost,” Vithoulkas said. Since that tour, Henrico officials have joined other volunteers in cutting weeds, clearing vines and uncovering headstones at Woodland. “Up to now, it has been a neverending battle against nature, but that, ladies and gentlemen, will soon change,” Vithoulkas said. McQuinn said she expects Woodland to qualify for state funding for maintenance under legislation approved by the 2020 General Assembly. “These are sacred spaces, and we
must treat them as sacred spaces,” she said. “For those who contributed so much in their life, in their death, we need to contribute some of our time to make sure that we are preparing the next generation to understand how important these spaces are. These are lifelines to our history.” In a statement released on behalf of the family, Jeanne MoutoussamyAshe, Ashe’s widow, welcomed the plans for Woodland Cemetery and expressed gratitude to its new owners and to Henrico. “I am so pleased that Evergreen Restoration Foundation and Marvin Harris have acquired the Woodland Cemetery, and along with Henrico County are embarking on restoring the Cemetery,” she said. “Many leaders in Richmond’s African American community are buried at Woodland Cemetery, including my late husband, Arthur Ashe. I support these efforts to restore the cemetery and unlock the rich stories of those buried there. A holistic understanding of Richmond’s poignant history may be the best way to lead us all into the future.”
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Church farm producing 1,000 pounds of fresh produce weekly for Chesterfield food pantries If you take a quick glance as you travel Hull Street Road near the Hicks Road intersection, you may catch a glimpse of activity that might seem out of place in the Chesterfield suburbs. On Saturday mornings around 8 a.m., dozens of volunteers gather at a working farm located on the campus of Mt. Gilead Full Gospel International Ministries. The Mt. Gilead farm is internally known by church elders as “Seedtime and Harvest,” which is a biblical reference from Genesis 8:22. However, some local food banks are calling it something else — a godsend. While the farm started as a small vegetable garden in the beginning of 2019, it has grown to more than 10 fields on a corner of the 86-acre church property. With the summer in full swing and help from about 25 regular volunteers, church officials say it now regularly produces more than 1,000 pounds of fresh, fully organic produce each week, which it donates to the Chesterfield Food Bank and Petersburg's Hope Center food pantry. So far, Mt. Gilead has produced and donated more than 15,000 pounds of food since creating the farm. “The idea was to start with a small garden with just a few
vegetables that we could donate to the Chesterfield Food Bank as a ministry,” said Amie Carter, Mt. Gilead’s Executive Media Director. “Now, we have teams of volunteers collecting our harvest and filling our delivery trucks every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning. It has become something supernatural!” Besides the crew of regular volunteers, different ministries from the church are also assigned to help out each month. It has even become a teaching outlet for the church’s youth groups. The farm was the brainchild of Mt. Gilead parishioner “Captain” William Dugger, Sr., who still oversees all aspects of the operation, including training new volunteers to help with the growing bounty, which includes more than 15 varieties of vegetables like cabbage, okra, onions, melons, corn, and broccoli. “Once Captain Dugger got permission to start the original garden and we started producing the first crop of vegetables for donation, the farm really blossomed,” Carter said. “He spends a lot of time teaching new volunteers the entire process. For many of our younger volunteers, they are used to grocery stores. But when they
learn the process, and put a seed in in the ground, and see what can be produced with rain and a lot of hard work, it’s eye opening.” While 1,000 pounds per week is indeed impressive for the allvolunteer effort, Dugger and Mt. Gilead have bigger plans for the future of its farm, including more fields for produce, poultry and eggs,
and greenhouse improvements to keep up year-round production for the food banks and pantries it serves. “One of our biggest goals, however, is to grow our training program for new volunteers,” Carter said. “With more people understanding the process and gaining the knowledge to start their own gardens at home — that’s the ultimate victory.”
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Op/Ed & Letters Social Security Act is 85 L. LOUISE LUCAS & LENI GONZALEZ Virginia, and the rest of the country, commemorated the 85th Anniversary of the Social Security Act on Aug. 14. In Virginia, there are over 1 million Social Security beneficiaries. Working Virginians have paid into the Social Security program throughout their lives with the confidence that it will be there for them in their golden years. But partisan attacks have put the future of Social Security in jeopardy. Especially in the wake of the
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Social Security down the road,
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whether it was questions about her “likability” or whether her voice was “shrill.” She lost, but gender studies experts say the experience united many women – millions of whom turned out the day after Trump's inauguration to march for women's rights and respect. “What we saw was that the sexist rhetoric around Clinton, and Trump’s sexism itself, really motivated women,” said Amanda Clayton, a Vanderbilt University political science professor who focuses on gender and politics. Clayton notes that 2018 was another “year of the woman” in politics, with females comprising more than half of new Democratic congressional candidates that year. EMILY’s List, celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, has had more than 55,000 women approach the group about running for office – more than 50 times the number who reached out in the previous election cycle. And Harris is no stranger to sexist and racist attacks, notes Amanda Hunter, research and communications director for the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, a women’s equity group. “She has successfully navigated all kinds of bias for years,” Hunter said. “She’s well-positioned to handle this pressure.” And while the sexist comments continue to come from the social media sphere and the White House, Democratic voters have changed the dynamic since Ferraro’s days as vice presidential nominee, Hunter notes. For example, when Democratic presidential primary candidate Beto O’Rourke remarked – apparently as a self-deprecating joke – that his wife, Amy, is “raising, sometimes with my help,” their children, Democratic rank-and-file jumped all over him. And while Ferraro’s candidacy was an anomaly at the time, it’s likely to be the future – at least in Democratic politics, Clayton said. “It would be incredibly tone-deaf to have two white men on the ticket” now, Clayton said. “We forget how quickly it was the norm. It can never be the norm again in the Democratic Party.”
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