The aborignial people of Jamaica were the Taino/Arawaks, a large ethic group of native peoples originating in South America and spreading across the Caribbean islands, including Jamaica.
Starting in the 15th century with the rise of ocean sailing ships and slave trade, both Europeans and Africans arrived in the Caribbean areas. Many peoples of those islands today are of mixed-race, primarily from those three groups, to a greater or lesser degree; although trade ships certainly brought people from Asia as well.
So it is impossible to simply label her father "black" without a DNA panel. He seems to have self-identified with the Black Panther movement and other California marxists since his youth. However,
Genealogical research carried out by Northern Irish historian Stephen McCracken reveals Ms Harris’s four-times-paternal-great-grandfather Hamilton Brown was born in Co Antrim [Ireland] in 1776, the year of the US Declaration of Independence.The enslavement and importation of Irish people into the sugar plantations of the Caribbean was for the purpose of breeding slaves who had been bred with European levels of intelligence but were stronger and better able to tolerate working in the sun, like the African slaves. It was a very cynical, inhumane business:Brown emigrated to Jamaica, then a British colony, and became an enthusiastic slave owner on the sugar plantations that were the mainstay of the island’s economy. He opposed the abolition of slavery across the British Empire in 1832 and went to Antrim to replace his slaves with workers from his native county....
Ms Harris’s father, an emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University, acknowledged his family’s slave-owning past in a piece for a Jamaican newspaper in 2018. Curiously, relatives on his mother’s side are called Finegan. President Joe Biden’s Irish ancestors are also called Finegan (Finnegan).
SOURCE: The Irish Times: Kamala Harris is a descendant of an Irish slave owner in Jamaica
To: Kevin in California
I think the following is what I have read, although it also seems that her percent black is even LESS than 1/8th.
If this is incorrect, I am happy to learn the correct situation.
Kamala Harris is seven-eighths (7/8) Asian Indian and White,
and only one-eighth (1/8) Jamaican Black.
Her Mother: 100% Asian Indian.
Her Father: 75% Caucasian, 25% Black. Family includes Irish Slaveholders in Jamaica. Her grandfather was half white and half black, so he was 50% black. He had Kamala’s father with a white woman, so Kamala’s father was born 75% white and 25% black.
So when Kamala’s father (25% black/75% white) and her mother (100% Asian Indian) had Kamala, half of each is in her make up.
Therefore, Kamala Harris is:
• 50.0% Asian Indian (four-eighths or one-half Asian Indian (4/8 or 1/2));
• 37.5% Caucasian (three-eighths Caucasian); (3/8)
(that adds up to 7/8)
• only 12.5% Black (one-eighth Black) (1/8).
39 posted on 8/1/2024, 11:10:47 PM by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It’s what’s good for the world! (Not communifascism!))
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“who had been bred with European levels of intelligence but were stronger”
Thanks for the information. The above passage is thought provoking.
The vast majority of modern Jamaicans are of African descent, and it is, again, politically counterproductive as well as likely outright wrong to quibble about it.
Here are some early family pics:
She’s a very easy target on many grounds, and Vance was masterful in his pivot on the topic.