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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Every time I see Tom Brady, I see my whiteness. /s
Willie Brown was/is [B]lack tho.
So there’s that.
“Her “black” identity...”
Kamala can’t really push her “black” identity with too much visible gusto due to the fact that she’s running for national office in the United States, and from the U.S. her blackness does not hail!
“...no direct connection with the US black population...”
problem is, that’s the very undeserved and non-existent thing she’d like to benefit from
You bring it on yourselves with your constant race baiting.
Stop making everything about the color of your skin and you'd find the matter vanishes on its own.
Hey! Are you one of those “cat ladies” of which Vance Spoke? ;-)
I don’t think the Nazis chanting Jews will not replace us cared one way or another about Confederate statues.
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Her heritage is also Irish.
In Kamala-speak, she is an Oppressor.
She’s the Pale Plantation Princess
They celebrated attacks using ‘Orange-man bad’ for half a decade now.
In sum, while Trump did say that there were "very fine people on both sides," he also specifically noted that he was not talking about neo-Nazis and white supremacists and said they should be "condemned totally." Therefore, we have rated this claim "False."
“In Kamala Harris’s blackness, I see my own” - Rachel Dolezal
You mean the young Feds shouting the Jews will not replace us?
Peggy Joseph, is that you?
Did BO pay your gas bill and mortgage yet?
What's that? You're hoping Kamala will do it?
I have A cat, why do you ask?? I could be considered one of those cat ladies HOWEVER I love Trump and JD, I take no offense to JD’s remark for the most part he is correct!!
She’s stunning.
I was simply joking. ;-)
Off your meds I see.
“American” spectacle? Honey, it’s universal:
Miss SA 2024: South Africans Fume As Nigeria’s Chidimma Adetshina Makes It to Final...
“Reports have it that the 23-year-old law student and model, who was born in South Africa to a Nigerian father and a Mozambique/South African mother, has received xenophobic response and a barrage of insults from South Africans who believe she is ineligible to compete in the pageant due to her Nigerian origin....
“Another SA user commented: “She has taken a side!!!” She’s Nigerian!!! She must represent them! There are no Nigerian tribes represented in the eleven official languages!!! None!!!.”
As I understand it Kamala is a quadroon, right? One quarter black from her half Jamaican father.
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