Actually, the big claim you made was that
That’s what you should retract, because this claim has two implicit parts:
- Kamala Harris is there because she’s a woman and a minority; and
- There’s no other reason she’s there.
You’ve given some support for the first half of the first proposition and retracted the second half of the first proposition, but completely ignored the second proposition. It’s a pernicious idea that speaks of racist bias on your part, a very common sort of racist bias, and you’d do well to address it.
I don’t expect you address this funny bit:
“Anyone else” is a great phrase here. Minorities are treated like anyone else (by which you mean white people?), and women are treated like anyone else (by which you mean men?)? “Anyone else” means, as near as I can tell, straight white men.
There’s an idea in bias, the invisible default, in which the group with relative power is presumed to be natural and just the default state of humanity, and everyone else is a deviation from that default. Try rephrasing what you said to make it less invisible:
Does that sound true to you?