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Kamala Harris is a descendant of an Irish slave owner in Jamaica
https://www.irishtimes.com ^ | July 23, 2024 | Rona McGreevy

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; United Kingdom
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To: Tennessee Nana
I wonder where in Scotland the Harris family came from ???

Given the family name, they may have originally came from the Isle of Harris, in the Outer Hebrides Islands.

41 posted on 07/23/2024 7:13:15 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: NKP_Vet

bttt


42 posted on 07/23/2024 7:15:49 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Pray for President Trump. Never b"e a slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: NKP_Vet

43 posted on 07/23/2024 7:22:26 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: NKP_Vet

So she is another Irishman like Obama.


44 posted on 07/23/2024 7:42:19 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: tsowellfan

Oh no! She is a big proponent of DEI and reparations.


45 posted on 07/23/2024 8:37:52 PM PDT by AZJeep
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To: NKP_Vet
Hamilton Brown married one of his plantation slaves, Mary Mulvina. Their daughter, Christiana 'Miss Chrishy' Brown was the mother of Oscar Joseph Harris Brown, Kamala's grandfather:

Christiana 'Miss Chrishy' Brown

46 posted on 07/24/2024 12:23:53 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: NKP_Vet

SO...........................SHE IS NOT BLACK!!!! SHES INDIAN as we all knew but they have relabeled her and no one questioned it. Where are the insulted black community on this. Parading around as a sista


47 posted on 07/24/2024 2:30:45 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Most Jamaicans are partially black.

That’s a supposition you cannot support. And its not universally applicable to all Jamaicans.


48 posted on 07/24/2024 6:39:12 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: frank ballenger

Spot the Black ancestor ... the only Black in the past family history are the slaves they owned.


49 posted on 07/24/2024 6:41:13 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

“ That’s a supposition you cannot support. And its not universally applicable to all Jamaicans”

It actually is.
Do your research.


50 posted on 07/24/2024 7:04:34 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: NKP_Vet

Uh oh. Her phony identity is collapsing.


51 posted on 07/24/2024 7:20:22 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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To: TexasGator
what is she (mainly)?

A whore from SF that would suck the chrome off of a Mack truck to gain an advantage.

She's already proven what she is, and now the demonRATs are only haggling over the price.

52 posted on 07/24/2024 7:29:15 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: frank ballenger
Is this the right guy?

from his page at Stanford U.
I can't seem to get the link right, but it is http://web.stanford.edu/~dharris

53 posted on 07/24/2024 7:32:42 AM PDT by RightField
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To: RightField
He looks to have some color which is not unusual in families with long histories in Jamaica. Jamaican attitudes about color are unlike those of (bigoted) Americans who choose to focus on immutable characteristics rather than character, e.g., post-Civil Rights activists of the 60’s.
54 posted on 07/24/2024 7:44:52 AM PDT by The Westerner (Independent for Trump: 2016, 2020, 2024)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Doesn’t change Harris’ DNA.


55 posted on 07/24/2024 8:37:43 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

“Doesn’t change Harris’ DNA.”

No it doesn’t , but who cares about her DNA.
She is a rabid liberal who has never had a real job in her life.
She got started on her career by screwing Willie Brown the former SF mayor.
She will run a screeching campaign of attacking Trump and private industry.

I’m starting to miss Biden !


56 posted on 07/24/2024 8:55:37 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: NKP_Vet

So you think having an ancestor who owned slaves (and remember, you have 128 4x-great grandparents to choose from) is some kind of disqualification from modern political life?

If you do, you’re an idiot.

And if you don’t, why are you posting this?


57 posted on 07/24/2024 9:02:27 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

but who cares about her DNA.

Her DNA goes to the lie that she is Black. My point. And that matters to a lot to real Blacks and whinny white liberals, as well as the MSM.


58 posted on 07/24/2024 9:47:25 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Jim Noble

The OP made an excellent post.

I have no ancestors who were slaveholders.

Kamala has one.

Who should pay reparations for slavery?

If anyone should—it is Kamala, not me.


59 posted on 07/24/2024 9:52:50 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: PIF

Well again. Being Jamaican she likely has some black genetics.
And yes the shallow minded people use that in a DEI and Obama like way .

But we ignore that and focus on her utter incompetence .


60 posted on 07/24/2024 9:58:07 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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