Posted on 10/25/2024 6:55:54 PM PDT by TigerClaws
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Devi Harris, a Barack Obama campaign insider, who also serves on influential policy making committees of the Democratic National Committee and was one of the headliners of the only Indian-American event at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, said her grandmother in Chennai who scrupulously follows the campaign, had told her when she spoke to her on the phone before she left for the convention in Denver, "You let them know I am going to the temple everyday and praying for Barack Obama.
"It's very exciting and certainly my grandmother and our family members, not only in India, but in this country are all very excited about the future of our country," she said.
Harris, also an appointed at-large delegate from California to the convention, said, "I was very proud to be one of the first elected in California to endorse Barack Obama. I supported him for the US Senate and he supported me in my race to become the first Indian-American district attorney in the country." Sponsored
"And, I can tell you that I know very well of his commitment to doing good in terms of his leadership of this country, and in particular, to the very important aspect of a good democracy, which is coalition-building."
"Barack was recently in San Francisco at a Indian-American (fund-raising) reception we hosted for him and he proudly declared to the crowd his status as a desi and talked about the need to have an Administration in Washington, DC, and the White House that understands the plight of immigrants coming into the country -- the need to have an administration and policies that reflect good immigration policies and also that look to leadership in terms of having a good relationship with our international neighbours," Harris recalled.
"I think Indian-Americans can be very proud of our support of Barack Obama and electing the next president of the United States, who again by his own admission will be a desi," she added.
At the August 17 fund-raiser, Obama said, "Not only do I think I'm a desi, but I'm a desi," and added, "I'm a homeboy," and recounted that when he attend Occidental College his first roommate was a Pakistani and said to laughter, "in the dorm, Indians and Pakistanis came together under one roof... to cause havoc in the university."
To much applause, he also said how in interacting with his South Asian friends he had become an expert in cooking dal and other subcontinental delicacies although "somebody else made the naan."
"Those are friendships have lasted me for years and continue until this day," Obama said, and declared, "I have an enormous personal affection for the people of South Asia."
Preeta Bansal, former New York solicitor general and currently a partner with the international law firm of Skadden Arps, who is a senior advisor to the Obama campaign and was the other headliner, declared to the packed audience in the ballroom of the Denver Athletic Club, "I really think that Barack's story is our story and his candidacy is an especially extraordinary milestone and a catalyst for our community."
An at-large appointed delegate from New York to the convention, Bansal said that Obama's first book Dreams From My Father was one she believed "almost every Indian-American kid growing up in this country who reads that book has unbelievable moments and glimmers of recognition -- his struggle for an identity, his struggle for values, his struggle for finding his place in society."
"His America represents what all of us would hope and want our America to be," she said.
"In terms of the campaign and its impact on our community, what I have been so excited about working with so many of us like Ann Kalayil and Subodh Chandra -- and so many of us who've been involved in his campaign from the very beginning -- what's been extraordinary about this campaign is they have looked to our community, not simply for our pocketbooks," Bansal said.
"They didn't ask us to open our wallets, they asked us to open our minds and our hearts," she said. "So, they really looked at us as a full community -- one that has policy ideals, one that has grassroots involvement and engagement and I think in this campaign is really the first time our community has married all the three levers of influence."
Bansal described these as "policy thought leadership, grassroots and ground-up involvement and financial strength," and pointed out that in the South Asians for Obama co-founded by Hrishi Karthikeyan and Devendra 'Dave' Kumar, "we have an incredible grassroots movement. We have probably one of the earliest and best organised efforts within the campaign in terms of mobilising you."
Bansal also said the community "has a very strong finance committee and we have good fundraising at the moment and then we have key people throughout this campaign in positions of policymaking."
"It is an extraordinary opportunity for our community. At the end of the day what's so exciting about Barack Obama is that he is someone who is rooted in his identity, but he is not confined by it and that's something that we all as a community strives to be -- people who are rooted in our origins as Indian-Americans, but people who are not confined by it," Bansal asserted.
Image: San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris
She also allegedly lied about the identify of her Jamaican grandmother in her book. Not the lady in the book who was a family friend.
Indian-Americans coming to the US don’t have a “plight”. They are the top of the heap of Indian privilege. The poor ones don’t have a prayer of ever getting here.
She grew up in the Hindu religion and never went to a black church.
Harris said her grandmother said, “You let them know I am going to the temple everyday and praying for Barack Obama.”
Harris said her grandmother, presumably Hindu in India or Montreal, said this.
Was it ‘praying FOR’ Hussein Oboogaloo or’praying TO’ Hussein Oboogaloo?
I suspect the latter.
A prayer to a false god for a candidate from Hell, but that is no excuse for a misleading headline.
Which one did she pray to? The blue elephant, the blue bitch with 6 arms, or the dude with 3 faces?
I keep hearing various clips where kamal keeps saying her “role” as VP or as President.
She clearly sees her life as playing roles, not actually having to do any job nor have responsibility.
Reading it carefully it was Kamala’s family that went to the temple. Kamala’s father was a noted Marxist professor at Berkley.
https://x.com/aimeeterese/status/1849937458508726779
“[Barack Obama] supported me in my race to become the first Indian-American district attorney in the country”
- Kamala Harris in 2008
See also - a positive spin on her background:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/kamala-harris-rainbow-sign-berkeley.html
Info on her father.
Difficult to find news sources on his Marxist background.
https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1729906815706618.jpg
On Marx’s Scheme of Reproduction and Accumulation
by
Donald J. Harris
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/259902
Kamala’s Marxist father.
Well, I am a conservative, so I take people as I find them. I don’t classify them as to race/sex, etc.
But, it really is valid that neither Obama nor Harris are true “African Americans”.
Harris, especially is a fake, phony, fraud. Look up “empty suit” in the slang dictionary, her picture will be there!
Kamala is Jewish
No, she claims she is Baptist. Her mother was Hindu and said her family was the highest caste in India. Her father is from Jamaica and was an Adventist. He became a Marxist, which I am told reject religion.
So this race is a billionaire vs a multi millionaire. I think Marx would say “not exactly my idea of a class struggle. Leave me out of this one.”
Correct — it was her grandmother doing the praying — very misleading headline!
However — there are still a TON of things to unpack in this article. Kamala clearly identified as Indian-American, not black, and her involvement with Obama started very early on.
Also some of the weird stuff about Obama and South Asian/Pakistani “friends” at college .. is one of them the guy he’s sitting VERY close to on the couch (where he looks totally stoned)?
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