For Harris and Obama, different approaches on race
Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Distinctions in tone, emphasis and perception between the nation’s first Black president and its first Black vice president are not easy to draw. Obama spoke personally and poignantly about the nation’s troubled racial history — including in a 2008 Philadelphia speech sparked by controversy over his pastor — and Harris similarly has been able to interpret her personal encounters with the country’s racial divide for non-Black audiences. Advertisement Yet many see Harris as willing...