Her mother is from India and her father is from Jamaica. Harris was born in California.
As far as I know there's no direct charge like how they said Obama was from Kenya - it's just enough that her parents are POC and from other countries for them to start positing that bullshit line "I'm just asking questions!"
Is there something deeper to how two of the black people who reached the highest positions in the US state apparatus aren't 'african americans' so to speak?
Yes, it does speak volumes about the generational deprivation inflicted on Black americans that the most successful POC in the US in recent years have been children of recent immigrants and not descendants of slaves. But that point is easily lost in a sea of gatekeeping bourgeois identity politics and racist birtherism.
The same people who compalin about her 'not being born here" proudly celebrate their Irish ancestry on St. Patty's day. Or talk about themselves as "Scottish" or "Irish" or "German" or whatever.
It's always been about race, not about where you're from.
St. Patty’s day
and call it fucking St. Patty's Day instead of what it's actually fucking called
it's fucking PADDY for christ's sake
Her mother is from India and her father is from Jamaica
which means she gets her weed from 7/11
I get the usps and mail in bullshit because trump actually says the quiet part out loud, but damn his messaging against Biden and kamala is Surprisingly bad. I really don’t think anybody will be effected by lazy birtherism or convinced that they are secret communists.
or convinced that they are secret communists
Right wingers call everyone communists, and they believe it, too.
Ultimately bad. It's not good for words like "socialism" and "communism" to be popular boogeymen, because then whenever you suggest even the most milquetoast social program -- no matter how good of an idea it is -- some yahoo can derail it with "bUt ThAt'S sOcIaLiSm!!1!!"
Note also how by destroying any real understanding of what these words mean it makes it harder for people to educate themselves. If they go looking for information on socialism or communism there's a good chance they'll run across some right-wing fever dream version of it instead of some actual history, theory, or analysis.
I agree with what you wrote but I just want to add that liberals play into this too, by handwringing every time even the mildest socdem policies come up, which reinforces people's fear of socialism.
I don’t think trump actually believes it. He thinks it’ll be an effective smear (it wont)
This, I thought they would be more campaign from Trump, but who knows, probably the guy doesn't want it anymore, everything went to the right so they now are okay with an average republican taking control. Also, they needed exactly Biden Harris to start a war in LatAm without pushback from the lib media. Idk
I think he wants it now because NY state is gonna throw the book at him on charges the day after he leaves the white house.
I get the usps and mail in bullshit because trump actually says the quiet part out loud,
But it's still the same thing as the kente cloth debacle, because the Democrats really don't give a shit about the Postal Service or its workers. They are just defending it because it's the only way they can sneak Biden into office now.
Look how fast they are gonna rush back to Congress to "protect" the postal service, meanwhile there's about to be like 30% homelessness in this country and people have gotten one $1,200 check 4 months ago, if that, and they were perfectly happy to go "oh well" and go on vacation.
Birtherism started with Mitt Romneys' dad, it came from the Goldwater campaign. Always thought that was weird.
Republicans can't attack Obama or Harris or any other Dem on the actual vile and shitty things that they do. They can't tell their base "Obama is droning Muslim weddings and rounding up Central American immigrants into camps" because those are things they do, and their base loves.
But they have to oppose the Dems, who are 97% identical to them, so they just make shit up, like they want to give everyone welfare and forced abortions, and they are from another country.
