Kamala Harris with her hubby Douglas Emhoff
Posted on 08/23/2020 11:49:52 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
In a warm, encyclopedic tribute to her family Wednesday night, as she formally accepted the vice-presidential nomination, Sen. Kamala Harris skimmed past any discussion of her father, Donald Harris, a Jamaican-born professor of economics at Stanford University.
The reason is common to many of Harris’ generation: She is a child of divorce, raised by a single mother who became her most profound influence.
As Harris has stepped into the national spotlight, Donald Harris, now 81 and long retired from teaching, has remained mostly silent. His only recent comments about her, published on a Jamaican website run by an acquaintance, express a combination of pride in his daughter and bitterness over their estrangement.
He scolded her in a letter, which has since been removed from the site, for joking in an interview that, growing up in a Jamaican family, it was natural that she had smoked marijuana. “Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty,” he wrote.
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And she was raised by the non-Black side of her family.
What a fraud!
Bad move on their part.
Does that imply that her father was "dead-beat dad," a common stereotype for African-American fathers?
Or was he pushed out of her life by a vengeful mother?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Is that a warm, encyclopedic tribute or did I just pee in my pants?
You pee’d in your pants Jim.
both Harris and Obama were raised by the non-black side of the family. Democrats are not willing to put up a black person who was raised by a black person.
Dad hard core Marxist fialetical materialism kabor theory of value the whole 9 yards
That could backfire on them.
From the article, her father seemed like a successful, well-educated and caring individual who wanted to be a part of his daughters' lives.
How many divorced fathers are pushed out of their children's lives by vindictive ex-wives?
Silly me. I thought it was pronounced camel la.
Besides being half black... She and Barry O share another commonality... Neither of them is a real African American with great great grandparents born to slavery.
The Democrat party loves to install pseudo black Americans, knowing full well that if they actually select a true African American with slave roots, that millions of generational Democrat families who’s great great grandparents fought for slavery wouldn’t vote for them.
One for certain. Me.
The worst slur to say to me growing up after their divoe when I was in the 3rd grade was "You're just like your father." For anything below perfection.
Few are abusive alcoholic man-hating ones like my late mother. Most are just selfish.
“Harris is about as Black as Barack Obama—less than 50%.”
Harris is way way less.
Her father is of well under 50% African geneology.
Her father said he didn’t want any part of her identity politics.
She also grew up in Canada, in Montreal name didn’t go back to the U.S. until she was an adult.
“Besides being half black...”
She’s not even close to being half black.
She’s a lot closer to being half English than half sub-Saharan African.
The reason this matters is because she presented herself as a black Anerican from the Oakland hood for political reasons.
She is in fact a Tamil Indian daughter of an immigrant from India who grew up in her Tamil family in Montreal Canada.
Either that or it was that a warm, encyclopedic tribute...
Harris’ father is a Marxist economics professor.
I could care less about race, religion, nationality etc.
Proof read much?
Kamala Harris with her hubby Douglas Emhoff
Her daddy could be saint peter at the pearly gate. She’s still ineligible.
She’s the ideal dem over-seer: a little black, but not too black, kinda caramel-tinted.
Caramel Harris
Can you name any biracial celebrity, politician or athlete that identifies with their white side? If it is such a privilege, you'd think there would be at least one, wouldn't you?
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