Dear Editor,

Henley Morgan has written about what he considers US Vice-President Kamala Harris’s Achilles heel. That is the diffidence with respect to what she says, or more accurately what she doesn’t say, about her Jamaican father.

Morgan says it will lose her the votes of some black Americans, especially in some key swing states. Just a pity that Harris is not doing as well on that score as Barack Obama did, recognising his Kenyan father and his African roots.

I am even more concerned at the way she addressed the Palestinian issue in her acceptance speech. I understand that until the election she is bound by US President Joe Biden’s approach (which of course is getting nowhere with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu trying to save his own neck). But still she didn’t have to come on so stridently in support of the Zionists, with a quiet addendum for the Palestinians.

With a Jewish husband, who I would presume is an anti-Zionist, she needs to find a way to show what side she is on.

Otherwise, that will be her Achilles heel on the other foot.

Paul Ward

Oracabessa, St. Mary

pgward72@gmail.com