Katie Porter thinks she is better for diversity than black women
Zachary Faria
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Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) thinks a black woman should be appointed to temporarily replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) should the incumbent senator retire early. But then Porter also thinks she, a white woman, should permanently replace that black woman because diversity only matters as long as it doesn’t get in the way of her political ambitions.
Feinstein is likely to retire at the end of her term in 2024. California Democrats haven’t even waited to find out — they are in a frenzy to secure her seat. Porter, in an effort to show that she is the most woke candidate available, said Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) should appoint a black woman if Feinstein chooses to quit early. “I think there’s a reality that we need more diversity of voices in our Congress, we need more people with different kinds of experiences, and that means we do need more black people in the Senate; we need more black women in particular,” Porter said.
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“We need more black people in the Senate” and “we need more black women in particular” are peculiar arguments to make when you are a white woman who is running for the Senate against at least one black woman. Her California colleague, Rep. Barbara Lee (D), is expected to jump into the race to replace Feinstein, and yet Porter almost certainly won’t drop out and endorse her, even though she gives lip service to the idea that “we need more black women in particular.”
Porter is essentially arguing that she is politically black. If you don’t believe it, judge these quotes for yourself:
“I have a track record for fighting for the very kinds of issues that make a difference in the lives of black Americans and black communities,” Porter said. “Black Americans do not get people helping them with issues like healthcare, with housing, with being cheated by scam artists, and those are some of the fights I’ve taken on.”
We need more black women in the Senate because we need “more diversity of voices,” but also Porter can do everything for the black community that these supposedly needed black female senators could do. That is the pretzel that she has contorted herself into in order to justify why the skin color of the next senator doesn’t matter only when it involves her.
Porter perfectly embodies the selfish nature of the liberal obsession with race and identity. You can pick the group that gets preferential treatment (in this case, black women) and declare that no one deserves an opportunity if they are not from that group — unless that person is yourself, of course, because you identify with that group’s struggles. Therefore, you are a better candidate for power than anyone in the preferential group you just identified.
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Porter’s bizarre racial worldview is incoherent, but that doesn’t matter to her. Her only concern is increasing her own political power. Her racial obsession takes a back seat to her personal political ambitions. That is what liberalism is really all about these days.