 Washington Post, August 10th, 2020. Joe Biden pressed again to name a black woman as his running mate. Kamala Harris was only picked to be Joe Biden's running mate because she is a black woman, sort of a black woman. She's actually half Indian and half Jamaican, and a lot of the Jamaican part is white. But anyway, she, according to the swatch test among the Democrats, I guess she counts as a black woman.