Posted on 06/29/2019 3:53:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
California Sen. Kamala Harris is one of the leading contenders for the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination.
She has been one of the main proponents of giving reparations to the descendants of slaves with taxpayer funds.
What makes this story, which was originally reported in March, more poignant now is that she has given voters the impression that she is African-American.
But now a deep, dark secret from her family’s past could come back to haunt her platform and her campaign.
And it comes at the hands of Harris’ father who has again become a thorn in the side of his own daughter’s ambitions.
“My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me),” her dad, David J. Harris said in an op ed in Jamaica Global Online.
“The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown’s Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte),” he said.
“Looking back now I can say, with certainty and all due credit to Miss Iris, that it was this early intimate exposure to operation of the sugar industry at the local level of small-scale production with family labour and free wage-labour, coupled with my growing curiosity about how these things came to be, that led me, once I started reading about the history of Jamaica, to a closer study of the sugar industry,” Harris said.
“I came then to understand its origin as a system of global production and commerce, based on slave labour, with Jamaica as a key component of that system from its very start,” he said.
PJ Media reported more on the story including excerpts that detailed the slavery Harris’ family was overseeing.
Hamilton Brown was born in 1776 in Ireland. He became a sugar plantation owner and founder of Brown’s Town in Jamaica, according to university papers, textbooks, and historical documents. Henry Whiteley wrote a pamphlet entitled “Three months in Jamaica in 1832, Comprising a Residence on a Sugar Plantation,” where he describes Brown’s views on his slaves:
The same day I dined at St. Ann’s Bay, on board the vessel I arrived in, in the company with several colonists, among whom was Mr. Hamilton Brown, representative for the parish of St. Ann in the Colonial Assembly… I was rather startled to hear that gentleman swear by his Maker that that Order should never be adopted in Jamaica; nor would the planters of Jamaica, he said, permit the interference of the Home Government with their slaves in any shape. A great deal was said by him and others present about the happiness and comfort enjoyed by the slaves, and the many advantages possessed by them of which the poor in England were destitute. Among other circumstances mentioned in proof of this, Mr. Robinson, a wharfinger, stated that a slave in that town had sent out printed cards to invite a part of his negro acquaintance to a supper party. One of these cards was handed to Mr. Hamilton Brown, who said he would present it to the Governor, as a proof of the comfortable condition of the slave population.
But later that day, after he witnessed slaves being punished by Brown’s overseer, Whiteley wrote:
The first was a man of about thirty-five years of age. He was what is called a pen-keeper or cattle herd; and his offence was having suffered a mule to go astray. At the command of the overseer he proceeded to strip off part of his clothes, and laid himself flat on his belly, his back and buttocks being uncovered. One of the drivers then commenced flogging him with the cart whip. This whip is about ten feet long, with a short stout handle, and is an instrument of terrible power. It is whirled by the operator round his head, and then brought down with a rapid motion of the arm upon the recumbent victim, causing the blood to spring at every stroke. When I saw this spectacle now for the first time exhibited before my own eyes, with all its revolting accompaniments, and saw the degraded and mangled victim writhing and groaning under the infliction, I felt horror-struck. I trembled and turned sick; but being determined to see the whole to an end, I kept my station at the window. The sufferer, writhing like a wounded worm, every time the lash cut across his body, cried out, “Lord! Lord! Lord!” When he had received about twenty lashes, the driver stopped to pull up the poor man’s shirt (or rather smock frock), which had worked down upon his galled posteriors. The sufferer then cried, “Think me no man? Think me no man?” By that exclamation I understood him to say, “Think you I have not the feelings of a man?” The flogging was instantly recommenced and continued; the negro continuing to cry “Lord! Lord! Lord!” till thirty-nine lashes had been inflicted. When the man rose up from the ground, I perceived the blood oozing out from the lacerated and [illegible] parts where he had been flogged; and he appeared greatly exhausted. But he was instantly ordered off to his usual occupation.
Whiteley’s account goes on, describing one victim after the next, including women and young boys. It is truly sickening to read. Brown didn’t stop after the Jamaican slaves were freed. He attempted to make the Irish work on his plantation but failed when he was accused of trying to enslave more people. The historical accounts are so detailed that should Kamala Harris want to search out the families of the people her relative reportedly tortured, she would probably be able to find them.
If Harris’ wants to pay reparation to the descendants of slaves she has a prime opportunity to put her own cash where her mouth is.
She can start by writing checks to the descendants of the Jamaican slaves that her family owned and worked on their own plantations.
As a slaveholder descendant, Kamala should pay reparations to the descendants of her family’s slaves.
Those last 2 paragraphs, if they make it to MSM by some miracle, will destroy her.
Instead of descended from slaves, descended from slave owners.
Perhaps she should have claimed Cherokee?
Perhaps she should have claimed Cherokee?
Lots of Cherokee slave owners, as well.
No help there.
Did she claim to be African American in School and Job Applications? Mortgage? Car Loan? LYING on a Loan Application is a FEDERAL CRIME and a Felony!!!
Interesting.
Yet another opportunity for Republicans to bury the opposition. Problem is they hate confrontation; they hate to compete.
The GOW Party (Grand Old Wimps)
Therefore I predict that Hillary will pull this little tidbit out at the right time and claim the nomination.
Not helpful to the cause of patriots. OK, she’s a fraud; but she still wants reparations, and now she’ll push for them all the more, in a futile attempt to use others’ money to atone for a sin committed by her ancestor. The case that really needs to be made by conservatives is against reparations, not for her being a fraud.
Ancestral hate is “in” these days.
Kamala’s father sounds like an okay guy.
Ancestral hate is “in” these days.
Kamala’s father sounds like an okay guy.
Nothing that her ancestor did as part of his plantation ownership should have any bearing on Sen. Harris’ own character or moral culpability. This is true for everyone that has descended from people who lived at that time and were involved with the slave trade. Their crimes of ignorance and inhumanity should not justly be carried forward as some kind of collective guilt to the present day. The reason she is not qualified to be president is because she cons people about the facts and pretends to be one of the African American oppressed when she is faking victimhood to get votes.
You’ve got to be a real creepette if your own Dad says you’re a fraud.
“Karmala Harris is near.....”
This would appear to make her enrollment in a "desegregated" school (via busing) a "choice" on the part of her parents, who appear to have had some means to optionally have placed her in a private school (many of those available at that time in Berkeley CA).
Documents here:
“Donald Trump Jr. Shares, Then Deletes, a Tweet Questioning Kamala Harris’s Race”
Also, Newsweek...
President Donald Trump Suggests Busing Is Just a Way “To Get People to Schools”
Harris has claimed that she was one of the first “Black” students to be bussed in Berkeley, CA - that claim has already been debunked by school yearbook photos.
Maybe her dad is disgusted by the way she slept with any man who would advance her political career.
I suspect her father might be a wee bit embarrassed about how Kamala orchestrated her ‘rise’ in the Democrat Party. Most Fathers would be.............
Very well said.
so he is saying she is fully qualified then
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