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Should Harris Talk Much About Her Racial Identity? Many Voters Say No.
The New York Times ^
| Aug. 3, 2024, 5:04 a.m. ET
| Jeremy W. Peters
Posted on 08/03/2024 8:26:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“Obviously, we have eyes.”
That was the somewhat jaded response by Larhonda Marshall, a 42-year-old health care worker from Chicago, about all the attention being paid to Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity.
As a Black woman herself, Ms. Marshall said that the symbolism of a Harris victory would surely be on her mind as she considers her vote for president. But it was not the most important factor at all, she said. And she wishes the Harris supporters who keep mentioning it would drop it.
“I’m tired of hearing it,” Ms. Marshall said. “That’s not an issue. I just want what’s best for the country.”
This week, after former President Donald J. Trump claimed falsely that Ms. Harris “happened to turn Black” only recently, the vice president did not attempt to clarify the obvious: that she has, in fact, been Black all her life.
She did not mention race at all. Rather, she denounced Mr. Trump’s “divisiveness and disrespect” in a previously planned speech to a historically Black sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho.
Ms. Harris, whose father was from Jamaica and whose mother was from India, has long resisted attempts by others to categorize her identity. “I am who I am,”
she once said. “I’m good with it. You might need to figure it out, but I’m fine with it.”
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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: jeremywpeters
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Article presented under topic "humor" to grant it the respect it deserves.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Of course not! She’s a chameleon and would have to explain why she picks a different race for a different audience.
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:28:20 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Biden's Given His Farewell Address, So When Is He Leaving?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Anyone who wants Democrats to win in 2024 are highly in favor of Kamala saying as little as possible about nothing in general in the run up up the election
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:29:19 AM PDT
by
rdcbn1
To: E. Pluribus Unum
They twist themselves in knots
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:29:36 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Thank you God for saving president Trump from murder)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:30:54 AM PDT
by
cgbg
("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
To: rdcbn1
Basement Strategy Part II.
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:30:59 AM PDT
by
dowcaet
To: E. Pluribus Unum
It was one of her major qualifications and now we can’t talk about it?
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:31:53 AM PDT
by
GMMC0987
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Kamala is a breeding of a highly educated mulatto with a highly educated Tamil
Its so silly and dishonest to pretend she’s Cicely Tyson black
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:32:25 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Thank you God for saving president Trump from murder)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“I am who I am,” she once said. “I’m good with it. You might need to figure it out, but I’m fine with it.”a communist and a moron...figuring it out only required Captain Obvious
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:33:38 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: E. Pluribus Unum
SHOUT IT! SHOUT IT! SHOUT IT OUT LOUD!!
Kamala, you black nubian princess, you hot sauce in your purse carrying down for the shtruggle suffragette, fly, fly your social justice warrior flag high so all shall know your Joaneasha of Arc heart.
Screw that seri wearing achari murg eating Indian heritage crap. They aren’t going to sway the election anyway, so take that dump their way.
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:39:53 AM PDT
by
WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
(there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
To: dowcaet
Her handlers are keeping her on a short leash and she only attends interviews via zoom calls where there is a teleprompter for her read answers off of and time delay to delete or correct stupid comments
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:41:13 AM PDT
by
rdcbn1
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Kamala used to talk about how she grew up celebrating Kwanza.
In Toronto.
As she was being raised by her mother, divorced by that time, who was ethnically Tamil, raised Hindu and Brahmin by caste (though I imagine she was completely secularized in standard academia mode).
So of course democrats don’t want to talk about this.
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:47:06 AM PDT
by
sphinx
To: E. Pluribus Unum; All
Not every person in Jamaica is black. Is her Father black? Maybe we should get his birth certificate. The fact that Race Hustler Harris doesn’t want to talk about race suggest very strongly that there is something to this.
To: All
Kamala calculatedly discarded her Indian heritage, becoming "black" for political gain.
CNN aired an entire segment on Kamala's Indian heritage and how that shaped her political beliefs

Kamala's parents-----Mom in Indian garb. Connivingly came to the
US just long enough to give Kamala US citizenship, then divorced.
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:52:00 AM PDT
by
Liz
(This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
To: Liz
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:53:55 AM PDT
by
cgbg
("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
To: GMMC0987
Trump’s team is gonna talk about it.
They are going to pound her into the ground with it.
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:55:07 AM PDT
by
WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
(there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I think President Trump is referring to the Hillarysque southern accent Kamala has recently picked up in the south.
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:56:01 AM PDT
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
Yup—it is the lying and hypocrisy.
That cannot be allowed to stand.
The flak from the left/mass media and some weak sisters here means we are over the target.
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:56:43 AM PDT
by
cgbg
("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
To: cgbg
Kamala has dual citizenship and is thus ineligible to be VP or President.
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:57:38 AM PDT
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
To: OrioleFan
That topic has been debated in a million posts.
It is probably an issue that deeply concerns one one thousandth of one percent of voters.
That does not mean you are wrong—just that sometimes being right is irrelevant.
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posted on
08/03/2024 8:59:59 AM PDT
by
cgbg
("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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