{"id":58556,"date":"2019-07-23T00:39:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58556"},"modified":"2019-07-23T00:39:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:39:57","slug":"kamala-harris-has-no-problem-being-black-but-why-doesnt-she-say-publicly-shes-part-asian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58556","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Has No Problem Being Black, But Why Doesn\u2019t She Say Publicly She\u2019s Part Asian?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kamala Harris Has No Problem Being Black, But Why Doesn\u2019t She Say Publicly She\u2019s Part Asian?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education<\/a>
\n2019-06-30<\/p>\n

Emil Guillermo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Kamala Harris<\/a> likes to say she\u2019s American. Of course. But she\u2019s not generic. Her racial subtext is this: On her father\u2019s side she\u2019s half-Jamaican, and on her mother\u2019s side she\u2019s half-Asian Indian. Harris should say it proudly and often. Because there\u2019s a lot of misunderstanding out there. Just ask Donald Trump Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n

He never heard that she was half-Asian (Then again, he thought that meeting in Trump Tower was about Russian adoptions or something).<\/p>\n

When it comes to Harris, I like pointing out her Asian side often because wouldn\u2019t that be cool to have the first Asian American president of the United States<\/a> be half-Black and a woman?<\/p>\n

The 2020 Democratic presidential field is nothing but diverse, filled with a demography of riches. There\u2019s men, women, young, old, gay, straight, from North, South, East, West, and Wester (Hawaii), Blacks, Latino and Asians, all of whom yearning for the chance to say they too \u201cHabla Espanol.\u201d<\/p>\n

But of them all, I\u2019d say Harris has emerged as diversity\u2019s candidate. She\u2019s what America\u2019s becoming. She\u2019s the face of the American future, mixed race, not just one thing. And definitely she\u2019s not White, though she married one. Diversity!…<\/p>\n

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

When it comes to Harris, I like pointing out her Asian side often because wouldn\u2019t that be cool to have the first Asian American president of the United States be half-Black and a woman?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,26,20],"tags":[7172,20285,19040,28247,19041],"class_list":["post-58556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-diverse-issues-in-higher-education","tag-emil-guillermo","tag-kamala-d-harris","tag-kamala-devi-harris","tag-kamala-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58556","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=58556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58557,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58556\/revisions\/58557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}