Posted on 07/23/2024 5:24:49 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Presumptive Democratic nominee and US vice-president Kamala Harris has Irish roots but not in a way that she is likely to embrace.
Ms Harris is the daughter of Donald J Harris, who was born in Jamaica, and Shyamala Gopalan Harris from India.
Genealogical research carried out by Northern Irish historian Stephen McCracken reveals Ms Harris’s four-times-paternal-great-grandfather Hamilton Brown was born in Co Antrim in 1776, the year of the US Declaration of Independence.
Brown emigrated to Jamaica, then a British colony, and became an enthusiastic slave owner on the sugar plantations that were the mainstay of the island’s economy. He opposed the abolition of slavery across the British Empire in 1832 and went to Antrim to replace his slaves with workers from his native county.
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So the article is basically calling her dad a liar! “No actual proof it’s the same Hamilton Brown who enthusiastically owned slaves!” Because there’s so many other ppl named Hamilton Brown, right? 🤣
Time to demand a DNA test with the results released publicly.
“ Harris is as much black blood in her as Elizabeth Warren has Cherokee. NONE”
Most Jamaicans are partially black.
No, I think she has African ancestry but it’s the least of her admixture.
As Whoopi would say, if Kamala were Green Party, “She isn’t BLACK black.”
“Enthusiastic slave owner”, eh? Did his enthusiasm extend to the female slaves? It usually does....
“Plantation and slave owner”
The relatives of Kamala Harris bought slaves captured by Arabs and African tribes and brought to Jamaica to be sold.
Reflections of a Jamaican Father
By
Donald J. Harris
As a child growing up in Jamaica, I often heard it said, by my parents and family friends: “memba whe yu cum fram”. To this day, I continue to retain the deep social awareness and strong sense of identity which that grassroots Jamaican philosophy fed in me. As a father, I naturally sought to develop the same sensibility in my two daughters. Born and bred in America, Kamala was the first in line to have it planted. 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). 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.
Except for the ones who aren’t.
Jesus, help us. Not another Irish nitwit for POTUS!
If she’s got one drop of black blood it is black Jamaican blood, not American. Her white distant grandfather did not immigrate to America.
My mother’s Birth Certificate (Virginia, 1918) lists her mother as “Colored.”
I don’t know what that actually meant in that time and place, but none of my maternal relatives look anything like Kamala.
Kamala was Willie’s sex slave
irish my @ss
It is sometimes interesting how people self-identify and why. Warren chose and lied about being American Indian to benefit from Affirmative Action. How has Harris identified herself over the years? She’s 50% Asian Indian. I wonder if she can name a single black relative?
Anyone who is a descendant of slave owners is not pure enough for me
At least we wont have to hear about reparations for the next 8 years of a Kamala admin.
Harris is a Scottish name
What’s the Irish name ???
Harris is a Clan Campbell name
My gif Harris came from Kilmarnock in Ayrshire
doesnt everybody already know this.
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