Kamala Harris is a descendant of an Irish slave owner in Jamaica

https://www.irishtimes.com ^ | July 23, 2024 | Rona McGreevy

[Tennessee Nana]

My ggf

(Using my phone)

[Gena Bukin]

Ms Harris’s four-times-paternal-great-grandfather Hamilton Brown...

Nobody cares about Kamala Harris’s four-times-paternal-great-grandfather.

[Fury]

Agreed 100%.

Good grief.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s time for all you far left azhos to bring our American statues back.

[TornadoAlley3]

But she’s a brat with a coconut tree. Unburdened and filled with Fweedom.

[Right Wing Vegan]

But he was so high in college that she listened to Tupac and Snoop Dogg before they even released their first albums.

[TexasGator]

“No, I think she has African ancestry but it’s the least of her admixture.”

Once you said she was (mainly) Irish.

Then you agreed that she was (mainly) black with some Irish admixture.

Now you say African is only an admixture. If so, what is she (mainly)?

[rovenstinez]

I remember similar stories swirling around on the Internet about Barak Obama, his father came from YEMEN, and their line of business was slave trading. Plus..not sure about his mom. In many LINES of Americans, we can always find a trace of someone owning slaves. I hope we are not judged harshly for what they did.

[jimtorr]

Harris apparently was from County Antrim, which is in Northern Ireland. Many Scots moved from Scotland to N. Ireland.

[ifinnegan]

“ Once you said she was (mainly) Irish.”

False.

I said her father was mainly Irish.

Bye Felicia.

[Wallace T.]

I have seen pictures of Kamala Harris’ father, Donald Harris. He appears to have African ancestry but is mixed, not unlike Barack Obama. My guess is that he is roughly half European, half sub-Saharan African. That would make his daughter one-quarter black. Additionally, her husband is a white man of Jewish background. I am skeptical if she can be “sold” to the black community as “one of us”. The black community is probably the greatest economic victim of massive illegal immigration. In many places, such as Southern California, blacks have been pushed out of their neighborhoods by the burgeoning Hispanic population.

[TexasGator]

I stand corrected.

Once you said her father was (mainly) Irish.

Then you agreed that her father was (mainly) black with some Irish admixture.

Now you say African is the least admixture. If so, what is she (mainly)?

[popdonnelly]

You never know who’s going to be in your family tree.

[suasponte137]

I wonder if the Irish historian Stephen McCracken is related to the world famous Phil McCracken, the guy responsible for 90% of the worlds crank calls

[TexasGator]

“Harris apparently was from County Antrim, which is in Northern Ireland. “

DJ Harris was born in Jamaica.

[Tennessee Nana]

Yes they did

I had ancestors who lived in County Down

Campbell, Irvine, Hunter, McClimont

All from Ayrshire originally

[Tennessee Nana]

No Obama Sr was from Kenya where he already had a wife and children

[dadfly]

good post. nice to know.

so she’s irish-indian descendant of a ruling-class slave owner with nary a drop of black blood. makes sense, she looks asian-indian but not black to me. well now we know where the her high dander comes from :).

[Tennessee Nana]

I wonder where in Scotland the Harris family came from ???

Yeah I apologize for my distant cousin, KarMarLar in advance

[jimtorr]

Sorry, I meant to say that many times great grandpa Harris was from Ireland.