{"id":57666,"date":"2019-02-23T21:38:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T21:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57666"},"modified":"2019-02-25T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:19:40","slug":"kamala-harriss-record-and-character-matter-not-the-race-of-her-father-and-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57666","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris\u2019s record and character matter \u2014 not the race of her father and husband"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kamala Harris\u2019s record and character matter \u2014 not the race of her father and husband<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2019-02-22<\/p>\n

Colbert I. King<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSen. Kamala D. Harris<\/a> arrives at a Harlem<\/a> restaurant in New York<\/a> for lunch with the Rev. Al Sharpton<\/a> on Thursday. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

California<\/a> Democratic Sen. Kamala D. Harris<\/a> hardly had time to finish basking in the glow of her presidential bid\u2019s five-star rollout before 20,000 adoring Oakland hometown fans<\/a>, when two black-media-inspired questions<\/a> hit her in the face: Why did she marry a white man? And: Is she black enough?<\/p>\n

Harris has answers to both questions. They will appear in this column. But let\u2019s take a look at why these questions turn up in a presidential contest.<\/p>\n

Questions about race, sex and interracial coupling aren\u2019t new. Warring over them is older than the Republic…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Questions about race, sex and interracial coupling aren\u2019t new. Warring over them is older than the Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,26,20],"tags":[29536,19040,28247,19041,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-57666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-colbert-i-king","tag-kamala-d-harris","tag-kamala-devi-harris","tag-kamala-harris","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57668,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57666\/revisions\/57668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}