Sounds to me like she was race-shaming white liberals.

HARRIS: “Now I was probably doing this work for a good 15 years before smartphones. Everybody had them, OK? I’ll never forget and I would give speeches and I’d say the smartphone is probably one of the greatest advances in our fight for civil rights. You know why? Because what started happening with smartphones is that an individual could tape or videotape that arrest. That person being chased when they were without a weapon. That person being shot in the back. The interaction and the words that were spoken during that detention. And all of the sudden instead that one individual talking about what had happened, where nobody would believe in, the world got to see it. And I would — it was really interesting because then people would come up to me and say, Kamala, what’s happening all of a sudden with this — with this, you know, the excessive force and the racial profiling? And I would say, you know, you sound like a colonist, like you know, you showed up there because you’re seeing it for the first time and you think it just started happening –”
RYE: “Right.”
HARRIS: “– and that you discovered it. No. Communities have known this for generations and you’re now seeing it.”

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