She is well-protected and has been for some time. You could have predicted her being chosen by the fact that all sorts of info about her previous career was getting scrubbed from the Internet. (she would pile on criminal charges for black pot users, giving them huge prison sentences, which is now a really awkward fact)
Over at Twitter, @NickPacilio described as "Communications at @twitter. Former @KamalaHarris press sec." is interfering with the election by blocking TeamTrump. So a person who literally worked for her campaign in a key role is now over at Twitter stopping her opponent's free speech.
Try sending joebiden.info to a friend on Facebook messenger, no seriously, do it right now. The message doesn't get sent. Unbelievable that this is happening in America.
Censoring public posts is one thing, but blocking private messages being sent between friends? I'm speechless that there isn't more furore over this!
People have been clamoring for this for ages. I remember some years ago when people were cheering about discord deleting racist content despite the whole platform being made of micro-communities that no one is forced to join.
This is where that sort of militant progressivism leads, when there's no bad methods anyone can be a target at the whim of whoever is in control of the system.
What would people in Jamaica designate a person in mixed Indian and Jamaican descent, take that and add American. That’s the answer. Someone whose parents are from Ghana would be Ghanaian-American, rather than African American. Traditionally African American is for black Americans of African descent that were brought to US via the slave trade. The same way a white Uruguayan isn’t called european American but Uruguayan-American.
I tend to agree with this. I found a lot of the arguments from the article for her being "African-American" unconvincing.
From one perspective, I suppose one could make the argument that most "African-Jamaicans" would hold a similar distinction to "Africa-Americans" in that they share a common lineage. If you transitively apply that shared property, perhaps you could say that she's an African American "once removed" or whatever you want to call it. Although I'm not really sure how convincing I find that either.
What I wonder—is this distinction important one way or another to actual African Americans? Or is this actually just a contrived political battle?
I believe Senator Harris is milking her identity for the biggest vote bank there is. Her Jamaican father was largely not around as per her own admission and she was largely raised by her South Indian mother. At best she is Jamaican-Indian-American or some such permutation.
What exactly makes her African American? She vaguely looks like one or that she has African DNA? Tenuous propositions since the Democrats reject DNA as a marker of race (see Sen. Warren's travails). Many white Americans would have plenty of African DNA. Does that make them African-American? Sen. Harris is African-American because she went to a historically black college? Or she grew up in Oakland, a historically black neighborhood to two highly educated and privileged parents who were both immigrant academics?
She is trying to exploit the sympathy for the African-American population reeling under so much historical discrimination and suffering. The African-American population deserves a candidate who is rooted in the African American community and not someone usurping the mantle.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 32.4 ms ] threadAs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24139360 shows, you can't send the URL https://kamalaharris.info/ in a private message on Facebook or Instagram.
Over at Twitter, @NickPacilio described as "Communications at @twitter. Former @KamalaHarris press sec." is interfering with the election by blocking TeamTrump. So a person who literally worked for her campaign in a key role is now over at Twitter stopping her opponent's free speech.
Censoring public posts is one thing, but blocking private messages being sent between friends? I'm speechless that there isn't more furore over this!
This is where that sort of militant progressivism leads, when there's no bad methods anyone can be a target at the whim of whoever is in control of the system.
From one perspective, I suppose one could make the argument that most "African-Jamaicans" would hold a similar distinction to "Africa-Americans" in that they share a common lineage. If you transitively apply that shared property, perhaps you could say that she's an African American "once removed" or whatever you want to call it. Although I'm not really sure how convincing I find that either.
What I wonder—is this distinction important one way or another to actual African Americans? Or is this actually just a contrived political battle?
What exactly makes her African American? She vaguely looks like one or that she has African DNA? Tenuous propositions since the Democrats reject DNA as a marker of race (see Sen. Warren's travails). Many white Americans would have plenty of African DNA. Does that make them African-American? Sen. Harris is African-American because she went to a historically black college? Or she grew up in Oakland, a historically black neighborhood to two highly educated and privileged parents who were both immigrant academics?
She is trying to exploit the sympathy for the African-American population reeling under so much historical discrimination and suffering. The African-American population deserves a candidate who is rooted in the African American community and not someone usurping the mantle.
Sen. Harris is the Rachel Dolezal of politicians.