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Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« on: February 16, 2019, 12:33:57 pm »
Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
Washington Post, Feb 14, 2019, Eugene Scott

Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) is running to become the first black female president. But in the early days of the campaign, she’s had to answer questions about the “legitimacy” of her “blackness.”

Harris pushed back. “I’m black, and I’m proud of being black. I was born black. I will die black,” she said. “I’m not going to make excuses for anybody because they don’t understand.”

She went on to criticize those who question her racial identity.

“I think they don’t understand who black people are,” Harris said. “I’m not going to spend my time trying to educate people about who black people are. Because right now, frankly, I’m focused on, for example, an initiative that I have that is called the LIFT Act that is about lifting folks out of poverty.”

Harris has had some different life experiences than many black Americans. Her father is a Jamaican immigrant; her mother is a Tamil Indian immigrant. Her husband is a white man from New York. While she was born in Oakland — a city with a rich history of African American activism — Harris spent her early childhood in Berkeley, Calif., and worshiped at a Hindu temple in addition to attending black Baptist services. She attended high school in Montreal before returning to the United States for college at Howard University, a historically black college.

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Carnell fleshed out the argument further Wednesday, tweeting:

“Kamala Harris doesn’t have that in her lineage. She’s anchored in two affluent, immigrant parents. It’s really simple. So since Kamala Harris doesn’t have this experience in her background, or a track record that expresses this understanding, and she announced during MLK Week, at Howard University, of course she’s going to get pressed HARD on the specificity of her #ADOS Agenda.”

(The ADOS, or American Descendants of Slavery, movement seeks to draw attention to the policy issues affecting the lives of blacks who descended from American slaves.)



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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2019, 12:34:20 pm »
Well, this didn't take long.   :laugh:
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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2019, 12:35:49 pm »
If her father is Jamaican, she is definitely black
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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2019, 04:00:46 pm »
Quote from: Restored on February 16, 2019, 12:35:49 pm
If her father is Jamaican, she is definitely black

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Not if he wears a red hat.
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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2019, 04:04:29 pm »
So why aren't these idiots questioning Barack Obama's "blackness."  His mother is white. 

These dopes can't even get along with people of their own ethnicity.
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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2019, 04:31:27 pm »

I have a dream that I will one day live in a nation where everyone will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2019, 04:33:52 pm »
Harris won't make excuses for her skin tone but she will tell you how she used to smoke weed while listening to 15 year old Snoop Dog in college.
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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2019, 04:43:20 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on February 16, 2019, 04:31:27 pm
I have a dream that I will one day live in a nation where everyone will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Hey now, that's crazy talk!  Who came up with that notion?

 **nononono*
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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2019, 04:48:43 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on February 16, 2019, 04:43:20 pm
Hey now, that's crazy talk!  Who came up with that notion?

 **nononono*

Can you imagine the strangled noise Harris would make if she heard any caucasian utter the phrase 'I'm proud to be white'?
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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2019, 02:36:08 am »
Kamaltoe is so desperate to embrace her blackness, she is putting on a Southern accent when she speaks. Phony as Hitlery.
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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2019, 01:06:38 pm »
Can she grow a fro, or is that mop on top processed to lay horizontally?
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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2019, 01:00:43 pm »
Her own father is not amused.
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... When asked on New York City's hip-hop radio show "The Breakfast Club" if she opposes legalizing marijuana, Harris replied:

"That's not true," adding "and look, I joke about it - half-joking, half of my family's from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?"
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    Q: They say you oppose legalizing weed.
    KAMALA HARRIS: That's not true.
    Q: I know.
    HARRIS: And look, I joke about it — half-joking — half my family’s from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?
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    Q: Have you ever smoked?
    HARRIS: I have. pic.twitter.com/dABtHKPGUG
    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 11, 2019
Responding to his daughter's shameless pandering, Donald Harris said in a statment to Jamaica Global Online:

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    “My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.” -Jamaica Global Online

Harris' father wasn't the only one to take offense to the stereotype, as Jamaican newspapers ran several headlines covering Kamala's  "hot sauce in the purse" moment.  ...
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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2019, 03:27:01 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on February 17, 2019, 01:06:38 pm
Can she grow a fro, or is that mop on top processed to lay horizontally?
For shame...........lolololololol.
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Re: Why some African Americans are questioning Kamala Harris’s blackness
« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2019, 03:30:08 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on February 19, 2019, 01:00:43 pm
Her own father is not amused.Responding to his daughter's shameless pandering, Donald Harris said in a statment to Jamaica Global Online:

Harris' father wasn't the only one to take offense to the stereotype, as Jamaican newspapers ran several headlines covering Kamala's  "hot sauce in the purse" moment.  ...More

If she is the candidate, I hope her father's statement will be featured prominently in GOP ads.
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