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2020-08-12 Home Front: Politix
Kamala Harris Isn't African-American. She's Ethnically Indian and Jamaican. That's Not The Same Thing.
Follow up to yesterday’s announcement. It should be noted that former president Barack Obama was Kenyan-American rather than African-American, so the Democratic Party proves consistent in preventing the advancement of any native African-Americans to the highest levels.
[The National Pulse] While the media will continue to portray Harris as African-American, it’s important to note her mother was from India, and her father from Jamaica.

That’s not typically what people think of when they say "African-American". I’m Indian, for example, and I don’t go around pretending to be black.

Political activist Ali Alexander — of half African extraction himself — noted the matter over a year ago, tweeting: "Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican. I’m so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history. It’s disgusting." He was met with derision from white liberal reporters in the establishment media, who demanded there was no difference.

The fact the Democrats would select an Indian-Jamaican candidate and bill them as African-American in year marred by Black Lives Matter riots would usually be unthinkable.
There’s also her adoring Jewish husband and her open support for Israel —AIPAC, not J Street — all of which should rankle in various quarters, though her left-wing Indianness should continue to delight the generous folks in the Olde Countrie...
Then you remember they continuously call men who identify as women, "women," and allow them to compete in women’s sports.


Of course this short post is going to send the media into a tailspin as they attempt to defend Harris and steer Biden toward the White House. They’ll call this important distinction a "racial attack," on Harris, as they have on the past. Even though the writer of this article shares an ethnic background with Harris: Indian.

But don’t take my word for it. Kamala Harris’s own father has lashed out about her race-grifting, telling a Canadian magazine in 2019:

My dear departed grandmothers, 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.

And I suspect there will be a large number of African-Americans across the United States who aren’t happy with their ethnicity or race being co-opted to suit a political candidate who shares little with them.

Related: Overlawyered.com did a search of their archives for Ms Harris misbehaving.
Posted by Clerens Angaiting5443 2020-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 There is no multiracial or mixed-race category in American law in any jurisdiction. Nor is there an Indian category. So Harris cannot be legally Indian, nor can she be legally "both."
Posted by crazyhorse 2020-08-12 00:42||   2020-08-12 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 One drop rule in effect because it's useful right now...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-12 01:04||   2020-08-12 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 She is married to a White Jewish Lawyer; that just screams African-American culture.
Posted by Airandee 2020-08-12 06:18||   2020-08-12 06:18|| Front Page Top

#4 She is married to a White Jewish Lawyer; that just screams African-American culture.

African-American culture being what it is, isn't it a plus?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-12 06:28||   2020-08-12 06:28|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by Frank G 2020-08-12 06:47||   2020-08-12 06:47|| Front Page Top

#6 and the media has to twist themselves a little when they fawn over her for being a 'first', noting that it is only a 'first' for a 'major' party

Dimwit Cynthia McKinney ran for pres on the Green Party ticket back in 2008
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-08-12 08:01||   2020-08-12 08:01|| Front Page Top

#7 McKinney seems almost sane when compared to the whackos actually in position of power (Lightfoot, Whitmer, et al.).
Posted by Clem 2020-08-12 08:08||   2020-08-12 08:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Angela Davis ran for VP w/ the Communist Party USA. The Communists now support the Democratic Party since there isn't a spit's worth of difference between them.
Posted by Glavinter Greretle1225 2020-08-12 08:12||   2020-08-12 08:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Shirley Chisholm.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-12 08:55||   2020-08-12 08:55|| Front Page Top

#10 She also has part Willie Brown in her.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-08-12 10:26||   2020-08-12 10:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Joe - Blow
2020

(heard on a Scott Adams periscope)
Posted by Spot 2020-08-12 10:40||   2020-08-12 10:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Barack Obama was half white and his black half was African-African, not African-American.

And it didn't matter.

Harris' actual background won't, either.

Oh sure, there will be some who are turned off or unexcited, but it's naive to think that the average minority voter won't go into "One...of...us" zombie mode for a Vibrant! candidate.

You know how most lefties live in a low-info bubble?

I think a problem with the Right is that many of us live in a (relatively) high-info bubble, where we are fairly well-informed about what's going on, and then make the mistake of assuming everyone else knows too.

That's dangerous.

It may not be a nice thing to say, but we should assume that the average American voter (and let's be honest here--especially women and minorities) can still be swayed by the Narrative and plan accordingly.


I know, I know:


"ZOMG, charger, you can't SAY that!!!"

"As trooly Troo Conservatives, it is our duty to ignore the historical record and pretend everyone just wants a Madisonian paradise, like us classical liberals do!"

Sorry, but I can't ignore the reality of 2020 America.

Posted by charger 2020-08-12 10:49||   2020-08-12 10:49|| Front Page Top

#13 saying what most of us are thinking
Posted by Jan 2020-08-12 11:29||   2020-08-12 11:29|| Front Page Top

#14 Sorry - #10 wins Snark O' The Day, hands down.
Posted by Raj 2020-08-12 11:30||   2020-08-12 11:30|| Front Page Top

#15 But shouldn't that be Willie Brown's Willie?
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-08-12 11:39||   2020-08-12 11:39|| Front Page Top

#16 The difference between a microwave oven and a ghey rear end:

A microwave doesn't brown your meat.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-12 13:27||   2020-08-12 13:27|| Front Page Top

#17 You have to remember, the left judges based on skin color, so it doesn't matter so long as her skin is dark enough.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-08-12 14:16||   2020-08-12 14:16|| Front Page Top

#18 But not the first female - Geraldine Anne "Gerry" Ferraro was the first female vice-presidential nominee - in 1984 was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice-President. Then there was Sarah Palin, from a minor party.
Posted by Bobby 2020-08-12 14:17||   2020-08-12 14:17|| Front Page Top

#19 Will hubby go into hiding? Wouldn't want to spoil the narrative.
Posted by Glavinter Greretle1225 2020-08-12 14:31||   2020-08-12 14:31|| Front Page Top

#20  Harris' actual background won't, either.

I agree, charger, The lady has all the earmarks of her upper middle class, child-of-academia upbringing (dad an economics professor at Stanford, mom a PhD researcher who took the kids with her to Canada when she divorced Kamala’s dad), but has always marketed herself as an African-American woman of colour.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-12 16:19||   2020-08-12 16:19|| Front Page Top

#21 True
Posted by Frank G 2020-08-12 17:06||   2020-08-12 17:06|| Front Page Top

#22 Wasn't her father a descendant of slave traders?
Posted by Clem 2020-08-12 17:14||   2020-08-12 17:14|| Front Page Top

#23 #22 - a little Wiki research says he was - ...prominent slave plantation owner Hamilton Brown. According to Harris [the father], Brown is his maternal great-great grandfather.

Donald J. Harris
Posted by Bobby 2020-08-12 17:20||   2020-08-12 17:20|| Front Page Top

#24 Queen Ho of Pacific Heights
Posted by Alistaire Untervehr4583 2020-08-12 17:22||   2020-08-12 17:22|| Front Page Top

#25 She is the female version of Barak Obama.
Posted by Vespasian Ebbereng3110 2020-08-12 20:06||   2020-08-12 20:06|| Front Page Top

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