{"id":60266,"date":"2020-11-01T01:23:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60266"},"modified":"2020-11-01T01:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T01:25:15","slug":"black-like-kamala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60266","title":{"rendered":"Black Like Kamala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/14\/opinion\/kamala-harris-black-identity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Black Like Kamala<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2020-08-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jbouie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jamelle Bouie<\/strong><\/a>, Opinion Columnist<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/14\/opinion\/kamala-harris-black-identity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/08\/16\/opinion\/14bouie1\/merlin_175594365_f7955db9-85a0-4ff0-a78b-4b03d38ef14e-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamala_Harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kamala Harris<\/a> in 1966 during a family visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harlem<\/a>. <em>Kamala Harris campaign, via Associated Press<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Republican efforts to deny <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamala_Harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senator Harris\u2019s<\/a> identity as an African-American and turn her into a noncitizen are destined to fail.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was probably inevitable that becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> running mate would result in controversy over <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamala_Harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kamala Harris\u2019s<\/a> heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, whose mother emigrated from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">India<\/a> and whose father emigrated from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamaica<\/a>, is a woman of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tamils\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tamil<\/a> and African ancestry who identifies as Black. That\u2019s why, after Biden\u2019s announcement, she was described as the first Asian-American and African-American woman on a major-party presidential ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone thought this was the right description for Harris. Several allies of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Trump<\/a>, for example, were quick to dispute the idea that Harris was or could be Black. The radio host <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Levin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Levin<\/a> said Harris\u2019s Jamaican origins placed her outside the category of African-American. \u201cKamala Harris is not an African-American, she is Indian and Jamaican,\u201d Levin said. \u201cHer ancestry does not go back to American slavery, to the best of my knowledge her ancestry does not go back to slavery at all.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/14\/opinion\/kamala-harris-black-identity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican efforts to deny Senator Harris\u2019s identity as an African-American and turn her into a noncitizen are destined to fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1245,21,8,26,20,25],"tags":[9476,19040,28247,19041,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-60266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-biography","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-women","tag-jamelle-bouie","tag-kamala-d-harris","tag-kamala-devi-harris","tag-kamala-harris","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60266","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=60266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60270,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60266\/revisions\/60270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}