Half a league, half a league, half a league onward. . .
https://www.newsweek.com/some-questions-kamala-harris-about-eligibility-opinion-1524483
https://www.newsweek.com/some-questions-kamala-harris-about-eligibility-opinion-1524483
Half a league, half a league, half a league onward. . .
https://www.newsweek.com/some-questions-kamala-harris-about-eligibility-opinion-1524483
Who, Eugene Volokh?The gutter level low life racist is at it again. Only a moron would believe him.at this point.
But there is much more about Kamala Harris to be said, and told, and learned. As with all of our lives, there are conflicts and complications, secrets and mysteries. But unlike all but two dozen of us on this planet, she yearns to be President of the United States, and she may well succeed.
“I am a proud daughter of Oakland, California,” Harris said in January, when she formally announced her candidacy at Howard University, her “historically black” alma mater in Washington, D.C. That she considers herself to be African-American is beyond dispute—“I was born black and I will die black,” she told a radio interviewer a few days ago. Crucial to her candidacy will be her defence of her record of filling the penitentiaries of the Golden State with legions of young African-American men. But the annals of American politics reveal that personality and personal history will triumph over policy every time. So it matters deeply to the voters of all the nation’s Portsmouths not only what Kamala Harris says, but who she is.
Again: “I was born black.” Yet Sen. Harris’s mother, née Shyamala Gopalan, was a Brahmin Hindu born in Chennai (Madras), the oceanside megalolopolis of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu; and her father, raised in Brown’s Town, educated in Port Antonio and at the University of the West Indies, is as Jamaican as the sun and the sea. (Dr. Shyamala Gopalan Harris died in 2009 at the age of 70.) Just as Barack Hussein Obama is the mixed-race descendent of tribal Kenya and sunflowery Kansas, Kamala Harris, potentially Obama’s successor’s successor, is every bit as not-really-a-real-American as her desperate opponents may choose to make her out to be. Will that matter?
(For a few days in January, an asinine and racist “birther” conspiracy against Sen. Harris circulated on the Internet’s extreme right wing—namely, that since her mother was from India and her father was from Jamaica and neither of them had lived in the United States for five full years before Kamala’s birth, she could not be a “natural-born citizen” as required of the president and vice-president by the U.S. Constitution. This was patently and crudely false—Harris’s birth in California swaddled her in American citizenship the instant she drew her first breath. President Trump often has ranted against “birthright citizenship” to enflame his base, but The Donald’s nativist ravings carry no weight in law; at least not yet.)
So far in the 2019-2020 campaign, there has not been much in the way of personal slander. None of the six or seven or eight sitting senators in the race has torn a colleague to shreds. (“That will come later,” Sen. Lindsey Graham coyly predicted to a Maclean’s reporter in Washington last week.) But when Sen. Harris sniggered on New York City radio program that, like the sky-high Honolulu stoner Obama, she had thoroughly enjoyed marijuana—and that, unlike Bill Clinton, she had inhaled—she explained her behaviour by saying, “Half my family’s from Jamaica! Are you kidding me?”
Her father exploded.
Donald Harris, 81, professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University, divorced from Shyamala Gopalan since 1972, offered this comment to the website Jamaica Global Online, whose editor, Ian Randle, shared it exclusively with Maclean’s:
My dear departed grandmothers, as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.
This was not Harris’s first incursion into the ambitions of the elder of his two daughters. (His younger child, Maya Lakshmi Harris, a prominent liberal attorney, professor of law, senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the wife of Obama’s associate attorney general, Tony West, is Kamala’s national campaign chair.) In a December article on Jamaica Global Online, the girls’ father took pains to enumerate Kamala’s Caribbean experiences and to reassert the depth of her island heritage. Yet in her new campaign manifesto, The Truths We Hold, Prof. Donald Harris disappears on Page 20 of 300, and never is mentioned again.
Good grief. After all the lies Trump has spewed, you are concerned about Harris?? You don't seem to have a any problem with anything Trump does......including lying as a first language......Kamala Harris's father is slamming her for making a 'travesty' of her Jamaican heritage
It's not like she has no history in lying to the American people
That's the best you got?Kamala Harris's father is slamming her for making a 'travesty' of her Jamaican heritage
It's not like she has no history in lying to the American people
Well, the fake news dept & tabloids haven't had time to build a data base of trash to condemn Harris , yet. It won't take long.That's the best you got?
That's the best you got?
Well, the fake news dept & tabloids haven't had time to build a data base of trash to condemn Harris , yet. It won't take long.
Good grief. After all the lies Trump has spewed, you are concerned about Harris?? You don't seem to have a any problem with anything Trump does......including lying as a first language......
Trumpians should do some self assessment re: their double standards
Ya see, Trump supporters have technically lost the privilege to criticism anyone else for the things that Trump does as routine. That is the mistake Trumpians made in making Trump the "god standard" of behavior.(by supporting his insanity)
Good grief! After ALL the lies YOUR Prime Minister has spewed since 2015, not to mention the conflicts of interest and attempted obstruction of justice and all you do is whine about a foreign President. Clearly you're no better than those you whine about. You're fine with the lies, as long as it's the side YOU support doing the lying.Good grief. After all the lies Trump has spewed, you are concerned about Harris?? You don't seem to have a any problem with anything Trump does......including lying as a first language......
Trumpians should do some self assessment re: their double standards
She says without a HINT of irony considering NOBODY was allowed to criticize the Obamessiah for 8 years without being called a racist.Ya see, Trump supporters have technically lost the privilege to criticism anyone else for the things that Trump does as routine. That is the mistake Trumpians made in making Trump the "god standard" of behavior.(by supporting his insanity)