Posted on 08/11/2020 3:03:04 PM PDT by MagillaX
Dated but relevant.
The father of Kamala Harris detailed how their ancestors owned slaves, an inconvenient part of her history as she has spent much of her campaign focusing on race politics.
The Democrats have been up in arms about an NBC News report that detailed how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s great-great-grandfathers owned slaves in Alabama in the 1800s.
Donald Harris, a Stanford University economics professor and father of 2020 Democrat candidate, wrote about how they are descendant of an Irishman who owned a slave plantation in Jamaica in a piece titled “Reflections of a Jamaican Father.”
“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),” Mr. Harris wrote in his article for Jamaica Global.
The Free Beacon reports that “a research archive of Jamaican records indicate that at one point in 1817, Hamilton Brown owned scores of slaves. The majority were brought in from Africa, though he also owned many Creole slaves.”
Harris has been pushing for “some form of reparations for black people,” saying that “we have to be honest that people in this country do not start from the same place or have access to the same opportunities.” Apparently, she should be looking into the history of her own family.
McConnell has responded to the reports about his ancestors by pointing out that the family of former President Barack Obama also owned slaves.
“You know, I find myself once again in the same position as President Obama,” McConnell said. “We both oppose reparations, and we both are the descendants of slaveholders.”
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Fire in the Hole!
I had forgotten that Ms. Harris’ father did not like some of what she was saying and doing.
She might have to make him disappear.
No Repub ever owned a slave. All slaves owned by dems.Remember the dems are the party of the KKK and racist white supremacy. Why don’t we keep telling thhe public that it was the dems who were the KKK and white supremesists.They were the slave owners and still to this day run inner cities like plantations. Take a look at this short video which talks about the 5 points used by the dems to keep blacks on the plantations are the same points used today to keep the blacks enslaved in the inner cities run by them. It is the dems who are the party of the KKK, white supremacists and racists to this day. They are also facists by trying to keep this truth from coming out. Dinesh Dsouza video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG6jV17qqFI
Canceled! Right?
It will not matter, no more than it did with Obama.
Sure no Margret Thatcher, Geraldine Fararro, or even a Pasty Schroeder. Nothing there but a crafted image made by handlers.
“‘You’ve enslaved us!’ someone bellowed.
‘Not me, old boy,’ Stragen drawled. ‘You couldn’t **give** me a slave. You have to feed them, you know, even when they’re not working.”
She can start by writing a blank check--on her account, not somebody else's.
Interesting how the link to details at Jamaica Global Online https://www.jamaicaglobalonline.com/kamala-harris-jamaican-heritage/ has been scrubbed.
They need to put up a statue of Kamala Harris and then let the mob tear it down.
Has anyone in the media labeled her as “African American” yet?
‘cause that, you know...would be kinda Fake News
Ulysses S. Grant owned a slave for a year. George H. Thomas owned a slave for 6 years. Thomas’s slave was freed until the 13th Amendment was ratified.
ValJar seeking her third term
“Hamilton Brown [, K. Harris’ ancestor,] owned several plantations over the years 1817 to about 1845. According to the 1818 Almanac [(available online)], he was the owner of Minard (128 slaves) which he must have acquired from its previous owner (John Bailie) in 1815 or later.”
- Excerpts from the slave registers, National Archives, London
And Biden is a sexual predator. Doesn’t seem to bother voters.
U.S. Grant’s wife owned slaves and by the laws of the day, that made Grant a slave holder as well.
She’s a phony. She tries to make it sound like she grew up in the ‘hood, but of course she grew up in Berkley. Both her parents were academics. She went to school starting in the seventies. Berkley in the seventies was not Mississippi of the fifties, believe it or not.
“No Repub ever owned a slave. All slaves owned by dems.”
There were no Republicans and Democrats when slaves were first brought to this country. And yes, Republicans owned slaves.
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