| 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. |
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... |
BREAKING: Kamala Harris makes History as first African-American VP pick for #Biden https://t.co/xBylWQoYU2
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) August 11, 2020
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. |
