Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a Tamil Indian breast-cancer scientist who immigrated to the United States from Madras, India, in 1960 to pursue a doctorate...Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University economics professor who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics... Harris has one younger sister, Maya Harris.[8][9] Her mother chose to give them both Sanskrit names derived from Hindu mythology to help preserve their cultural identity.[10] She is also a descendant of a slave owner from Jamaica.[11]
She identifies as black[12] and Indian, but sees her experience primarily as American...She grew up attending both a Black Baptist church, where she and her sister sang in the choir, and a Hindu temple.
Your identification as American black, Senator, is false. You are not American black. You do not have the family history of slavery, in fact your great-great-whatever owned black slaves. That gives you the worst possible family connection with the slavery that American blacks suffered. Your father and your slave owning ancester were from Jamaica. Jamaican black people, Haitian black people, Dominican black people--they are not American black people, Senator Harris. There is in fact resentment in my community, Miami, Florida, among American blacks and "Island blacks." You see your history "primarily as American." Yes, "primarily" American. Your parents came to the U.S. in 1960 and 1961. You are American, Senator and your family history as American dates all the way back to 1960. If you had left your identity at "American" I would not be so wary of you. But you chose to identify with the one uniquely oppressed group in American history. Your one searing experience as an American with the American black racial experience came in kindergarten when Berkeley instituted busing to bring about racial integration. I do not deny that experience was searing to you and however long it lasted it was frightening and sickening, and you used it, rightly in your soul, to excoriate Joe Biden for his opposition to busing. Do you feel oppressed, Senator? Do you feel that you have oppression in your experience as an American?
However that may be your experience as an American black person was interrupted at age 12 when you became a Quebecois. An Anglo Quebecois. You moved with your mother after your parents divorced to Westmount, Quebec where you graduated from high school in 1981. Pretty important years, one's high school years, no? Westmount:
Westmount is an affluent suburb on the Island of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is an enclave of the city of Montreal, with a population of 19,931 as of the Canada 2011 Census.
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Traditionally, the community of Westmount has been a wealthy and predominantly anglophone enclave, having been at one point the richest community in Canada.
As Canada classifies these things the "visible minority population" who identify as Black, as you do, was 355. 355 out of almost 20,000. 1.8%.
After graduation from Westmount High School you attended the premier American black institution of higher learning in America, Howard University. You joined and have maintained contacts with your black sorority sisters at Howard. You dated Willie Brown.
Seriously?
And you married Douglas Emhoff who is as white as I am.
It is a complicated summing up but to sum you up you are Jamaican-Indian with slave-owning roots with a Sanskrit given name taken from Hindu myth who sang in a Black church and a Hindu temple, spent your formative high school years in a wealthy Anglo community in Quebec, Canada, went to Howard, dated Willie Brown, married Mr. Emhoff, became a prosecutor where you imprisoned, among others, American black young men. You are a woman but that is nowhere mentioned in your Wikipedia entry as part of who you "identify" as. You have a white woman's hair. Hair, Senator Harris, is a particular point of identity with many American black women. You know that.
Now that is identifiably "American black woman hair." Although you were living and being schooled in the affluent, anglophone enclave of Westmount, Quebec at the time.
Why all of this "identity politics"? Well Senator, because you identify as black. If you had left it at "American" and if Rep. Jim Clyburn had not identified you as a black woman we wouldn't be going there.
Senator, I am an old white guy. Like Biden. I could not get away with identifying as a black person any easier than Mitt Romney could but, Senator, I identify with American black people, especially American black women. I do. I know them and they know me in the way that Rep. Clyburn said he knows Joe Biden and "more importantly Joe knows us." American black women trust me, Senator. And I trust them. I do not know you, I don't even know who the hell you are, so, forgive me, I do not trust you and you should not trust me. I will tell you, Senator Harris, that if Jim Clyburn had not specifically mentioned you as someone Joe should pick, saying "We owe black women," I would not care how you "identified" I don't think the Democratic party owes you anything.
The Democratic party, Senator Harris, would not exist were it not for American black people and there would be no American black community worth the name if not for American black women. The Democratic party wouldn't even know the component of it that is Jamaican-Indian-anglophone Quebecois-Female had left if it did. What do you bring to the ticket, Senator Harris? A state? Sorry, we got California and Jamaica, Quebec, and Madras are disenfranchised. A national name? No. Regional appeal? Will black voters throughout the South see you as one of them? Deary me, I hope Jim Clyburn is right.
I owe American black people. The black women with whom I have been a co-worker for forty years have been the people I most trust, whose judgment I esteem highest, the most loyal and the trust, esteem and loyalty are reciprocal. Probably half of the people I prosecuted were black men; probably one-third I have represented as a criminal defense attorney the last eleven years have been black men.
The Democratic party owes American black people. The Democrats and Joe Biden owe Jim Clyburn and for some goddamned reason Jim Clyburn put you on his short list for Joe. I will tell you Senator how much I feel I and the party owe Jim Clyburn. If Jim Clyburn wants you, then Joe damn well better pick you. But I will tell you this Sister Kamala, if the Biden-Harris ticket loses to Trump, American women are going to, deservedly in my view, get the blame, for it is women, anecdotally, it seems to me primarily white professional women, suburban women, Hillary Clinton women, who are pushing for you. And Jim Clyburn. And he's all that matters to me. There is no "women vote" in America, as we all found out in 2016 and as you and Senator Warren and Senator Klobuchar found out this past fall and winter.
The Democratic party, Senator Harris, would not exist were it not for American black people and there would be no American black community worth the name if not for American black women. The Democratic party wouldn't even know the component of it that is Jamaican-Indian-anglophone Quebecois-Female had left if it did. What do you bring to the ticket, Senator Harris? A state? Sorry, we got California and Jamaica, Quebec, and Madras are disenfranchised. A national name? No. Regional appeal? Will black voters throughout the South see you as one of them? Deary me, I hope Jim Clyburn is right.
I owe American black people. The black women with whom I have been a co-worker for forty years have been the people I most trust, whose judgment I esteem highest, the most loyal and the trust, esteem and loyalty are reciprocal. Probably half of the people I prosecuted were black men; probably one-third I have represented as a criminal defense attorney the last eleven years have been black men.
The Democratic party owes American black people. The Democrats and Joe Biden owe Jim Clyburn and for some goddamned reason Jim Clyburn put you on his short list for Joe. I will tell you Senator how much I feel I and the party owe Jim Clyburn. If Jim Clyburn wants you, then Joe damn well better pick you. But I will tell you this Sister Kamala, if the Biden-Harris ticket loses to Trump, American women are going to, deservedly in my view, get the blame, for it is women, anecdotally, it seems to me primarily white professional women, suburban women, Hillary Clinton women, who are pushing for you. And Jim Clyburn. And he's all that matters to me. There is no "women vote" in America, as we all found out in 2016 and as you and Senator Warren and Senator Klobuchar found out this past fall and winter.
What are you, Senator Harris? A prosecutor who, I understand, consciously but unnaturally went too far "left" in the primaries. You flamed out like few who burned so intensely in the beginning ever have. I don't know if that was humbling for you. I don't see you identifying as humble; Joe is humble I see some bumble in you, not humble but bumble. Your campaign was like the plane on the stamp that flew upside down. You flamed out and crashed and burned. The L.A. Times said you tried to be all things to all people and, as those kind do, were nothing to anybody.
Who are you? What are you?
Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon
You come and go, you come and go
I am with you Karmala Chameleon, full 100, whoever and whatever you are. Where thouest go, I too shall go; where thou lodgeth, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people and thy God my god. Until the end.
And it better end good.
