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Kamala Harris.
By her own tongue, she's Indian and her name is actually pronounced 'Comma-la", NOT the African 'Car-maa-la". She spent only her first five years with her Jamaican father - half-African, half-Indian himself - before her parents divorced and then she was brought up like a typical Indian girl. She visited India but I don't know whether she ever visited her 'folks' in Kingston.
Brought up in Canada - migrant Asians' second home - Comma-la has appeared in many, many clips describing herself as 'Indian'. Only when it became politically-correct did she start describing herself as Black. The same Blacks she incarcerated mercilessly.
Now, race and identity is a very personal thing, I concede. But I find Comma-la being described as 'Black' by Caucasian media to be very problematic. If we go by her immediate roots, she's actually three-quarters Indian. She's married to a Jew. She did not grow up in Black community to be imbued with the Black Experience. How is she is Black?
To refer to her as Black is to acquiesce to the racist classification and genetic hierarchy that was developed in the Deep South to keep African-Americans at the bottom of the barrel. This racist dichotomy was known as the One Drop Rule.
This is how one open source describes the One Drop Rule:
"The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States in the 20th century. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of black blood) is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms). This concept became codified into the law of some states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste and later segregation. It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups".
The One Drop Rule was used to label Obama, a mixed-race guy, Black. He wasn't Black. He was mixed race, Afro-European.
Hate him or like him, Trump is bright enough to have known this all along. Within minutes of Biden announcing Kamala's candidature, the Trump Campaign had labelled her Phony Comma-la. They are going to go after her heritage hammer-and-tongs, hoping to suppress the Afro-American vote.
So how does all this shit concern us back in the Mathaland?
As Africans we have faced the worst subjugation, discrimination, torture, enslavement, genocide, etc etc over the last four centuries. Yet,somehow, we still stand and thrive. Our identity is sacred, and people shouldn't be able to waltz in and out of it like walking in and out of a mall. Nazis don't cal themselves Jews, and Indians shouldn't be able to call themselves Black.
Comma-la Harris. You ain't Black.
And White media should stop referring you as one of us.
By her own tongue, she's Indian and her name is actually pronounced 'Comma-la", NOT the African 'Car-maa-la". She spent only her first five years with her Jamaican father - half-African, half-Indian himself - before her parents divorced and then she was brought up like a typical Indian girl. She visited India but I don't know whether she ever visited her 'folks' in Kingston.
Brought up in Canada - migrant Asians' second home - Comma-la has appeared in many, many clips describing herself as 'Indian'. Only when it became politically-correct did she start describing herself as Black. The same Blacks she incarcerated mercilessly.
Now, race and identity is a very personal thing, I concede. But I find Comma-la being described as 'Black' by Caucasian media to be very problematic. If we go by her immediate roots, she's actually three-quarters Indian. She's married to a Jew. She did not grow up in Black community to be imbued with the Black Experience. How is she is Black?
To refer to her as Black is to acquiesce to the racist classification and genetic hierarchy that was developed in the Deep South to keep African-Americans at the bottom of the barrel. This racist dichotomy was known as the One Drop Rule.
This is how one open source describes the One Drop Rule:
"The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States in the 20th century. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of black blood) is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms). This concept became codified into the law of some states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste and later segregation. It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups".
The One Drop Rule was used to label Obama, a mixed-race guy, Black. He wasn't Black. He was mixed race, Afro-European.
Hate him or like him, Trump is bright enough to have known this all along. Within minutes of Biden announcing Kamala's candidature, the Trump Campaign had labelled her Phony Comma-la. They are going to go after her heritage hammer-and-tongs, hoping to suppress the Afro-American vote.
So how does all this shit concern us back in the Mathaland?
As Africans we have faced the worst subjugation, discrimination, torture, enslavement, genocide, etc etc over the last four centuries. Yet,somehow, we still stand and thrive. Our identity is sacred, and people shouldn't be able to waltz in and out of it like walking in and out of a mall. Nazis don't cal themselves Jews, and Indians shouldn't be able to call themselves Black.
Comma-la Harris. You ain't Black.
And White media should stop referring you as one of us.
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