Kamala chose black

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by Don Surber

It’s too bad James Whitmore isn’t around to play Kamala Harris in her inevitable bio-flick on Netflix. He played the titular character in Black Like Me, a 1964 movie about a white reporter who dons blackface to experience racial prejudice. Apparently black people couldn’t just share their experiences. They needed a white savior to do so 60 years ago.

People say Kamala is not too bright but in choosing to emphasize her Jamaican roots over her Indian-American roots, she was headed on the road to the vice presidency and maybe the presidency.

Those smarty-pants Nikki Halley and Vivek Ramaswamy are on the sidelines, aren’t they? We haven’t heard from Bobby Jindal in nearly a decade, haven’t we?

Being Jamaican does make her black. Colin Powell’s parents were from Jamaica. It does not make her or the late general African-American which has become the name synonymous with descendants of the slaves who were sold by the rulers of Ghana and Doheny to Europeans to work in the Americas.

Sorry, Elon Musk, you are just a white guy from South Africa.

I praise her for her selection because she read the politics right. Elections are not about issues but rather optics and emotions.

Choosing to emphasize her blackness over her Indian ancestry was a savvy move because of racial stereotypes. The stereotype is Indian-Americans are spelling bee champions, convenience store owners and descendants of call center operators.

Black stereotypes are of an oppressed people who deserve a system rigged in their favor, as affirmative action nears its 50th anniversary. Conservatives bemoan the prejudice of low expectations but Obama, Kamala and Justice Brown Jackson have zero problems with it.

Five years ago, Robin Givhan wrote in the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post:

Kamala Harris wanted to go to a black school. That’s what black folks called Howard University in the early 1980s when Harris was a teenager considering her future.

Harris, she would say later, was seeking an experience wholly different from what she had long known. She’d attended majority-white schools her entire life — from elementary school in Berkeley, California, to high school in Montreal. Her parents’ professional lives and their personal story were bound up in majority-white institutions. Her father, an economist from Jamaica, was teaching at Stanford University. Her mother, a cancer researcher from India, had done her graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, where the couple had met and fallen in love. And Harris’s younger sister would eventually enroll at Stanford.

Harris wanted to be surrounded by black students, black culture and black traditions at the crown jewel of historically black colleges and universities.

It is interesting that she argued for integration in the 2019 primary debates (“and that little girl was me”) but sought segregation in college.

Her father’s employment alone would have gotten her into Stanford. She chose Howard because she believed it would help her politically. It did.

College is about connections. Ramaswamy and JD Vance were classmates at Yale Law and watched Bengals football games together.

At Howard, Kamala joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, a politically powerful group of well-organized women. At least 8 members of Congress (well, 7 with the death of Sheila Lee Jackson) are AKA sisters.

Biden appointed more than 20 AKA sisters to his administration.

Her Howard years are being examined in a manner not shown Biden or Trump. I don’t recall one story about Biden from a former classmate at the University of Delaware. To be fair, he graduated so long ago that his classmates may all be dead.

The Howard stories are assigned to black reporters, such as Astead W. Herndon of NYT, who wrote:

As a student at Howard, called “The Mecca” by those who know its legacy, Ms. Harris settled into the pragmatic politics that have defined her career. She participated in protests, but was a step removed from the more extreme voices on campus. She sparred with the black Republicans on the debate team but made no secret that she thought some tactics by activists on the left were going too far. She extolled the values of racial representation, joining a generation of black students who decided to step into the institutions — in government and the corporate world — that were unavailable to their parents.

Ms. Harris, who declined to be interviewed about her college years, said through a campaign spokeswoman that she was proud to be back at Howard — occasionally working from an office on campus during the campaign — and that the college was “a place that shaped her.”

In interviews, more than a dozen classmates and friends who knew Ms. Harris and attended Howard themselves placed their experience in the larger context of black politics in the 1980s and a changing Washington. They were the children of the civil rights movement, the early beneficiaries of federal school desegregation, with newfound access to institutions and careers. Words like mass incarceration and systemic racism were not yet widely used, though the effects of both were becoming visible around Howard’s campus.

By newfound access to institutions and careers, I believe he means affirmative action.

After college, she went back to the West Coast and graduated from law school. She was mentored in politics by Willie Brown, the big boss of California’s Democrat Party.

Before you say anything, AP has explained it all in a fact-check.

 
I read that and roared with laughter. It is as humorous as reporters denying that Biden put her in charge of the border, which she promptly lost.

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Why don’t Democrats try to run and win with the first competent, America-loving candidate they’ve had in decades?

A horrible horrible person. Not worthy of being president let alone a Las Vegas prostitute.

I guess this explains the truly stupid memes and rumors now being circulated that Vance didn’t come from poverty but, in fact, is from luxury. Because Kamala lived a life of luxury, they have to try to bury that with lies about Vance. It’s like campaigning against children.

I don’t think going with Kamala was intended to be a winning move. It was intended to get rid of Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden, whose massive failures was dragging the entire party down and replace him without doing further damage by jumping over Ms. Box-Checker. There was simply no way out of that trap. They just want to try and save as many down-ticket races as possible.

Maybe she should run for Miss America or something where all her fake attributes would matter and not having any competency wouldn’t.

Harris was elected district attorney of San Francisco, Attorney General of California, United States Senator from California, and Vice President of the United States. This all transpired after she was no longer with Willie Brown.

Resume’ padding. No qualifications, no experience, no accomplishments. Find something else to apply checked boxes to. That’s not what we need as President.

So what is her record in any of those positions? Lets recall she ran for president in 2020 and dropped out first.
https://humanevents.com/2024/07/22/human-events-kamala-harris-is-unqualified-for-the-presidency