{"id":58416,"date":"2019-07-04T19:55:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T19:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58416"},"modified":"2019-07-04T19:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T19:55:51","slug":"social-media-trolls-try-but-fail-to-give-kamala-harris-the-obama-birther-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58416","title":{"rendered":"Social media trolls try but fail to give Kamala Harris the Obama-birther treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social media trolls try but fail to give Kamala Harris the Obama-birther treatment<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Think Progress<\/a>
\n2019-07-01<\/p>\n

Sam Fulwood III<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA<\/a> – JUNE 30: Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris<\/a> (D-CA) greets attendees during the SF Pride Parade<\/a> on June 30, 2019 in San Francisco, California. An online smear campaign targeted Harris over the weekend, arguing she’s not a black American and raising fears of birtherism<\/a> and racism intruding into the 2020 campaign. (Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Birtherism<\/a> raises its ugly head, only to be lopped off by Harris supporters and rivals<\/em><\/p>\n

A birther<\/a>-style attack against Sen. Kamala Harris\u2019<\/a> campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination failed to take hold after legions of her online supporters \u2014 including most of her political opponents \u2014 rushed to denounce social media postings challenging her legitimacy to speak as a black American.<\/p>\n

Harris spoke passionately about racial issues during last week\u2019s Democratic debate, and since then a misguided series of social media posts began sprouting on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter suggesting that her parentage \u2014 Harris\u2019 mother was Tamil Indian<\/a> and her father is Jamaican \u2014 disqualified her from the community of black people in the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At one point in last week\u2019s debate, Harris interrupted crosstalk on stage, demanding to be heard as \u201cthe only black person on this stage\u201d during a heated discussion of racial justice policy.<\/p>\n

At another point, Harris described her feelings confronting racism as a child. \u201cGrowing up, my sister and I had to deal with the neighbor who told us her parents said she couldn\u2019t play with us because \u2026 we were black.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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

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