"[Kamala] Harris chose to enter the race on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, an overt nod to the historic nature of her candidacy..."

"... and her timing was also meant to evoke Shirley Chisholm, the New York congresswoman who became the first woman to seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for president 47 years ago this week. In addition, Ms. Harris will hold her first campaign event on Friday in South Carolina, where black voters are the dominant force in the Democratic primary, rather than start off by visiting Iowa and New Hampshire, the two predominantly white states that hold their nomination contests first. She will hold a kickoff rally Sunday in Oakland, Calif., her hometown.... Ms. Harris made her announcement on 'Good Morning America' and also released a video aimed at supporters and other Democrats. 'The future of our country depends on you, and millions of others, lifting our voices to fight for our American values,' Ms. Harris said in the video. She also debuted a campaign slogan that played off her background as a prosecutor: 'Kamala Harris, for the people Let’s do this together: For ourselves, for our children, for our country'...."

The NYT reports just now in "Kamala Harris Joins Democratic Presidential Field." I'll watch the video and update this post.

ADDED: Here's the video:



The persistent drumbeat had unfortunate resonance with the Covington Catholic boys story that the mainstream media embarrassed itself with over the weekend. I'm not sure I noticed anything about what Harris actually said in the video, because there was the distracting, puzzling drumbeat and because the whole thing started with flashing block-letter words at us. I remember that words were there, not what the words were. Was it "truth," "justice," and something else that made me say — as a Baby Boomer raised on the "Superman" TV show — "and the American way"? Without watching it again, all I remember is that Harris looked pleasant but spoke in a slightly stilted way and that she wore a gray jacket over a gray top. Bottom line: I heard no message at all other than that she's got an upcoming event in Oakland.