Posted on 08/05/2024 4:03:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
We seem to be beginning yet another season of a perennially popular American spectacle, “How Much Is That Mulatto in the Window?” I frequently think that, after 400 years, this show is about to go off the air — jump the shark, as it were. But then it returns, with ever more absurd plot lines. Yet, even as a so-called mulatto myself, I can’t stop watching.
The Hollywood pitch goes something like this: Put a racially ambiguous Black person in the public eye — Kamala, Meghan, Barack. Have them declare themselves Black. Count down the minutes before the world erupts into outrage, distress and suspicion. People scream their confusion and doubt, accusing the figure of lying about who they really are. It makes for good TV.
On this week’s episode, Donald Trump got his cameo, accusing Vice President Kamala Harris of switching races. “She was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black person,” he said during an appearance in front of the National Association of Black Journalists. His staged bewilderment — implying that Ms. Harris was practicing some sort of sinister racial sorcery — felt wild for 2024, when mixed-race people are everywhere, visually overrepresented in Target commercials and Kardashian family reunions. Yet even in the midst of our fetishization, a stubborn strain of mulatto-phobia remains widespread. And no matter what answer we give to the ubiquitous question — What are you? — someone, somewhere, will accuse us of lying; of being a grifter trying to impersonate another race, a more real race.
Multiracial, mulatto, mixed-nuts, halfies: Whatever you want to call us today, we remain the fastest growing demographic in our country. When we enter the spotlight, we are often treated as specimens, there to be dissected,...
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I love it when they manufacture victimhood from whole cloth.
(manufacture victimhood)
That seems to be what a lot of people are doing these days. Drama Queens.
Me too! About half of the genetic pool from which I am descended came from Ireland too!
She's INDIAN far more than she's black, and not even African black at that.
... or, if we're not dissected, we become the "invisible man."
Invisible Man is Ralph Ellison's first novel, the only one published during his lifetime. It was published by Random House in 1952, and addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans in the early 20th century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.
Heard on the radio ABC news a woman said Harris is bringing so much excitement, more than even Obama.
This is the crap we are up against.
He’s talking about her hypocrisy and fear of being discounted for being part black; the media insist on taking it as fear of blackness on his part.
It is Kamala who said she was Indian. No mean racist white guy pointed a gun at her head and forced her to make this video:
https://rumble.com/v597zdh-that-time-in-2019-when-kamala-harris-confirmed-she-was-indian.html
“In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own”
Oh brother, what BS.
Oh, please. Kamala is even less black than the Halfrican.
It’s thick as molasses.
It is laughable the lecturing that these people engage in. So Donald dared to pinprick or challenge this persona based on racial identity that Kamala and her media handlers wanted to present to the public. And he certainly did not make anything remotely personal or aimed at a race specifically in his remark.
But whites who talk about a replacement strategy are paranoid xenophobics.
Funny, nobody was excited about her when she ran against Biden in the 2020 primaries. I wonder what changed??
Looks like her mama got around a little bit...
Can someone tell me why someone who is, at most one quarter black gets to identify as black? T that’s just so Jim Crow, IMHO.
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