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Kamala Harris: AG Jeff Sessions Has No Credibility to Talk About History of Slavery, Reconstruction or the Civil War
2018-03-08
[Breitbart] Wednesday on MSNBC’s "All In," Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ speech announcing a lawsuit against California for allowing sanctuary cities in which he referenced Confederate states seceding during the Civil War.

Harris said, "Indeed, indeed he did. Listen, as far as I’m concerned, Jeff Sessions should be advised, and I’ll advise him right now, that it’s a bad idea for him to start talking about anything to do with the history of slavery or Reconstruction or the Civil War in the United States. His credibility is pretty much shot on those issues. But on the topic at hand, Chris, I think Jerry Brown is absolutely right and Jeff Sessions, in particular, has clearly put a target on the back of California, and California’s going to fight. And I think that these folks are really mired in rolling back the clock in time, and that’s not going to happen. California represents the future, and they don’t like it, but there you go."

She continued, "First of all they’re hypocritical. You can look at members of this administration, whether it is the head EPA‐when he was attorney general of Oklahoma said that federal emission standards and other standards as it relates to greenhouse gas emissions should not apply to the states. You can look at this attorney general who has said that imposing the terms of the Voting Rights Act on the states creates an undue burden and is meddling with the affairs of each state. It’s hypocrisy at its height. Again, I think there’s a distraction in that they’re trying to suggest that this is about the Constitution when in fact, what they’re doing is playing politics. They’re playing politics, and they’re playing politics with California. This attorney general is doing that, and he’s going to lose."
Posted by:Besoeker

#19  
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2018-03-08 18:29  

#18  Harris has a hard edge to her like Hillary. She comes across as very strident and not very likable. In the Senate hearings, she is humorless and very bytchy. For those reasons IMHO, she is not electable to POTUS.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-03-08 18:25  

#17  I suspect the Oregon part of "Jefferson" is having seriously second thoughts about joining with any chunk of California.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-03-08 17:54  

#16  Kamala-toe
Posted by: Frank G   2018-03-08 17:51  

#15  I thought he was talking about the fed-up Northern California Conservative movement to secede from those south of SF, in a new state called "Jefferson", as a sanctuary for taxpaying citizens of Cali away from the liberal loons.
Posted by: Jeremiah Gleretle3997   2018-03-08 16:02  

#14  Kamala was present during slavery and the reconstruction that followed? How old is she?
Posted by: Elminesh Spawn of the Mongol Horde9538   2018-03-08 15:40  

#13  Run, Kamala, please run!
Posted by: Raj   2018-03-08 15:37  

#12  They want to make THAT President?
Posted by: newc   2018-03-08 14:39  

#11  Going to lose, huh?

We’ll see about that.
Posted by: Eltoroverde   2018-03-08 13:19  

#10  It's all about the votes. Without a constant supply of Third World types coming into California and voting Democrat, Harris would have never been elected dog catcher much less senator even with Willie Brown's patronage. She knows this and she's fighting with all she has to maintain the status quo. If she implies that Jeff Sessions was responsible for slavery most of her constituents are so damn ignorant they'll believe her.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-03-08 10:49  

#9  Reflecting upon Kamala's distressed rantings, perhaps there is a valid reason some people became slaves as opposed to free men.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-03-08 10:49  

#8  By the same logic, Kamela-lala has no business trying to speak english.

She also wears trousers and uses a cell phone which is totally cultural appropriation.
Posted by: SteveS   2018-03-08 10:42  

#7  Sessions and his family has lived in the deep South all of their lives.

Sessions's office filed civil rights charges in the 1981 killing of Michael Donald, a young African-American man who was murdered in Mobile, Alabama by a pair of Ku Klux Klan members.

What has Harris done for any cause other than to feather her own bed. A knock-off of Hussein, the Great-limousine-Marxist-community-organizer.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-03-08 10:13  

#6  And she was 30 years older than her Willie Brown's squeeze as part of her "political grooming process..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-03-08 09:05  

#5  Yep the party of slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, and don't forget police dogs at Selma, Wallace on the steps of the University, and the murders of the freedom riders.

What on earth is she thinking. She should go study history...of course, you can imagine what kind of history she was taught in Oakland?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-03-08 08:53  

#4  Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California to a Tamil Indian mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris (1938–2009), and a Jamaican father

What's her credibility to talk about history of slavery, reconstruction or the Civil War?
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-03-08 08:42  

#3  By the same logic, Kamela-lala has no business trying to speak english.
Posted by: ed in texas   2018-03-08 08:30  

#2  Marxism all the way down...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-03-08 07:46  

#1  And again, what party are you a member of? The one of slavery, the Klan, segregation now and forever, race quotas, ect.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-03-08 07:38  

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