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Kamala Harris Isn't African-American. She's Ethnically Indian and Jamaican. That's Not The Same Thing.
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Posted by Clerens Angaiting5443 2020-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 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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