It just occurred to me that I have changed my entire tune on voting because of something Trump did earlier this week. In order to clarify if you happen to be reading this at some other point when the news cycle has moved on, I’ll remind you what it was.

Trump was invited to be a guest at an association of black reporters and he was to be interviewed, appropriately, by a black woman. The first question was to bring him to account on his record for black folks, and he decided it would be a good time to attack black folks head on. He then brought Kamala Harris race into question and said he didn’t even know she was black until recently when she started saying she was. I will not speak for Kamala Harris but I have always seen her as a person of color and never once questioned her racial bona fides because I’m not a sociopath.

But with just this one, over-the-top display of backwards, racist, ignorant thinking, the man ensured that I would be voting against him. How Harris handled the conversation and the fallout convinced me that she was capable of serving the office and by extension the people that it is accountable to: all of us.

Now I have begun the work of diligence to ensure that my vote is as informed as it can be, and more to the point, so I can feel good about casting a ballot for the first time in 12 years.