Kamala Harris, Birtherism, Race and the Unscrupulous, Sinister Antics of the Far Right!Posted in Articles, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, United States on 2019-07-05 00:44Z by Steven |
Kamala Harris, Birtherism, Race and the Unscrupulous, Sinister Antics of the Far Right!
Medium
2019-07-04
Elwood Watson, Professor of History, African American Studies and Gender Studies
East Tennessee State University
Now that she has emerged as a serious contender for the 2020 democratic nomination for president, Kamala Harris has come under attack from a number of conservative political outlets. Various segments of the right wing echo chamber immediately began working overtime in an effort to discredit the former California attorney general, now U.S. Senator.
Partisan knives have been purchased, sharpened and some have been employed by their unethical owners in an unabashed effort to attempt to stab and discredit the senator’s claim of American roots. Fortunately, for Harris, her formidable mental agility coupled with her acute political acumen has been a tremendous weapon to protect herself and stave off a vicious onslaught of treacherous and wicked attacks.
The most recent genesis of such a sinister ploy originated by a Black conservative internet blogger, Ali Alexander whose online identity was previously known as Ali Akbar and Ali Abdul Razaq Akbar. Alexander is a Black right wing, MAGA-world internet personality who crafted and engineered a website for similar, conspiratorial, like-minded fringe elements of the extreme right who were unable or in some cases, unwilling to either embrace or find a stable home in more mainstream conservative media circles…
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