Everyone is tweeting about the "chitthi" comment from the Harris speech. It is evident and even clear to most people that Trump already lost this election in 2015 - when he took a stand against immigrants. He just doesn't know it yet. As a vice-presidential candidate who has both brown and black origins, a Jamaican father and an Indian mother - confidence seems to be charmed with Kamala, and she is projecting it like its inherited from her roots.
Yes, the second video that is trending on YouTube right after the speech - is of her making masala dosa with the sensation Mindy Kaling. Yes, she has wooed Indians and India, right out of our boots. Yes, you may be right - if you say she has strongly played the immigrant card as a direct hit on the trump presidency.
But was that all there was? Is that all whom she was addressing? Kamala Harris was very clear with whom she was addressing. It can be specially noticed - where she says "if you are a grieving parent or a teacher". Why parent? why the teacher? is what one may wonder.
Speeches like these are not a day's work - they are thought of, articulated, penned down, and rewritten hundreds of times - before they see the light of the podium.
Teacher. Parent - because that's exactly who she is addressing in us. She is addressing the father in you, the mother in you, the neighbor you, the educated you - the responsible you. Moreover, she isn't here to address the worker in you, the taxpayer in you, unlike whom trump likes to go for - and she made it very clear with the quarter to a minute long statement on what family means to her.
It's not the first time - that a president has addressed the responsibility in his countries citizens. "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what we did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced" are the words of Lincoln himself, in the great speech of Gettysburg.
The final nail in the coffin though - was not when she said "there is no vaccine for racism" or even when she said "we must elect a president who should do important work", instantly reminding us of trumps 2 days crying about the shower problem and his bad hair day in the white house.
The final nail in the coffin was - when she ended saying, "in years from now, this moment will have passed - and our children and our grandchildren will ask us "where were you when the stakes were so high?" and we will tell them what we did" see how that so beautifully connected to abe? she addressed responsible America - that abe addressed back in 1863 Gettysburg. Let that sync in.
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