In April 2013, Barack Obama was forced to apologise for describing California’s Kamala Harris as “the best-looking attorney-general”, also calling her “brilliant”, “dedicated” and “tough.”
The first black US president was nevertheless widely castigated for detracting from a woman’s brains by focusing on her beauty. Harris, the first female US vice-president, recently became the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee after a faltering Joe Biden chose not to seek re-election, and endorsed her. If she wins the presidency against Donald Trump in November, Harris would become not just the US’s first female president, but also its first of Caribbean and Asian descent...
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