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

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“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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Article presented under topic "humor" to grant it the respect it deserves.

[Reno89519]

Of course not! She’s a chameleon and would have to explain why she picks a different race for a different audience.

[rdcbn1]

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

[wardaddy]

They twist themselves in knots

[cgbg]

Article:

“she has, in fact, been Black all her life.”

Kamala—in her own words:

https://rumble.com/v597zdh-that-time-in-2019-when-kamala-harris-confirmed-she-was-indian.html

Let Kamala be Kamala!

[dowcaet]

Basement Strategy Part II.

[GMMC0987]

It was one of her major qualifications and now we can’t talk about it?

[wardaddy]

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

[xp38]

“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

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

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.

[rdcbn1]

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

[sphinx]

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.

[wiseprince]

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.

[Liz]

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.

[cgbg]

Yup—here is the link:

https://rumble.com/v598w3h-a-few-years-ago-cnn-did-an-entire-segment-on-kamalas-indian-heritage.html

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Trump’s team is gonna talk about it.

They are going to pound her into the ground with it.

[OrioleFan]

I think President Trump is referring to the Hillarysque southern accent Kamala has recently picked up in the south.

[cgbg]

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.

[OrioleFan]

Kamala has dual citizenship and is thus ineligible to be VP or President.

[cgbg]

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.