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

[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.”

[Liz]

thx

[LouAvul]

I just want what’s best for the country

Lady, if you're even contemplating voting RAT, you clearly do not want what's best for ...... anybody.

[bobbo666]

Her claiming Indian heritage is strategic — makes it much easier to explain her family’s benefits from being slave owners. Can’t be black and also benefit from black slavery — that would require you admit that many blacks owned slaves.

[ifinnegan]

What about he national identity as an Anglophone from Montreal.

[Leep]

Down with the struggle.

[TornadoAlley3]

https://youtu.be/erDb8O7PZB8?si=_JxtkJfqU8BMy5YK

Harris is interviewed laughing that As California goes so goes the rest of the nation. Bragging how great her term as AG was for citizens of California

An ad should show her laughing that statement alongside headline photos of homeless. Drug use. Failed schools. Closing business. Everything on store shelves locked.

A voice over America doesn't want to be California. Vote Trump.

[Racketeer]

In other words, the NYT says “Hell No”!!

[rovenstinez]

I bet there are some pills she could take, that could make her look MORE African... like Michael Jackson took to make him white.

[bk1000]

No, let her claim it. The media is trying to sell her as black in order to pander to other blacks. I want her to state her race once and for all.