Is America ready to elect a Black woman president?

By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University

It’s the big question that has loomed over Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign from the start: is the United States ready for a Black woman president?

I get asked this almost every time I speak about American politics. And it’s a question that pundits, observers and experts keep asking, without ever landing on an answer.

That’s because the question is, in the end, unanswerable. It’s so heavily loaded that answering it requires…

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