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George Edwin Taylor vs. Kamala Harris

Facts about George Edwin Taylor.

Taylor’s mother died in 1861 or 1862, leaving him with no known sponsor or relative. Young Taylor

was left a waif and slept in dry goods boxes and he e survived (a miracle in itself) and arrived at La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1865, onboard a side-paddle wheeler. To support himself, the Times reported, Taylor took a job as a newspaper reporter in La Crosse. He eventually became editor of the La Crosse Evening Star. By 1886, he owned and edited The Wisconsin Labor Advocate, a La Crosse newspaper with an overwhelmingly white readership. He had shared the stage–literally–with Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. Du Bois and was a business partner with George Woodson, founder of the National Bar Association.  He knew Buffalo Bill Cody personally and had worked for “Brick” Marcus Pomeroy, editor of the National Democrat. Given the fact that Taylor received fewer than 2,000 votes when he ran for president in 1904, it is hard to call him "the right man at the right time."  Taylor knew his run for the presidency was a futile, thoroughly symbolic gesture, and that it would likely bring him ridicule and end his political life.


                                                                                         Facts about Kamala Harris.


Harris was nominated because she is Black, not in spite of it. Her presence in the campaign is essential, not something to apologize for or contextualize in a happy-face narrative about a unified America.She was a leader and had a voice. If Harris weren’t talking straightforwardly about the effects of white supremacy and racism, she wouldn’t seem qualified for the position of president-in-waiting now. Harris is middle class, a career lawyer. She comes from a stratum that has produced important Black leaders and activists — W.E.B. DuBois, Mary Church Terrell, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr.  Harris has the goods a presidential candidate needs: telegenic looks, core unflappability and, as recently displayed, oratorical charisma. But she is also primed to undo the racial effacement that has been the price of integration.



    After reading articles about these two candidate, I can say that they don't face the same challenges. I would even say that they are really different. George Taylor has faced troubles, problems, surviving. His life wasn't easy when he was a kid. At the same time, I would say that he is strong, smart man who became someone after all. Even thought he new that run for a presidency will be a futile but it didn't stop him. He showed people that African American can run for a presidency.
    Kamala Harris  is a leader, talented, looking good women. She has a voice and she can stand for herself. I feel like she could be a better president then George Taylor. However, both these two candidate face the same challenge. They both run for a presidency, they show their capabilities and their values.


Sources: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-30/kamala-harris-second-black-president-campaign-2020-joe-biden

https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/12/01/455267676/a-forgotten-presidential-candidate-from-1904

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/running-president-george-edwin-taylor-1904/



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