Business Insider It took less than 24 hours for the attacks on Kamala Harris to get deeply sexist and extremely ugly Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor from Northeastern University, echoed this sentiment. “As an African and Asian American woman, Vice President Harris is likely to face a barrage of subtle and overt racist and sexist attacks in this race, but many voters will reject these and be personally offended by them,” he said.