donho50 wrote:
I thought my initial post was pretty straight forward: why is Kamala Harris's ancestry so ambiguous? Especially in this age of identity politics, accuracy about heritage should not be all that hard to pin down. Her published biographies suggest her lineage to be California-born to a mother who emigrated from India and a father who emigrated from Jamaica. That's plain and simple to me. My friend commenting above suggests a claim of African American ancestry can be made by virtue of "American" being anyone born in the western hemisphere, and the "African" relating to "most" Jamaicans being brought over from Africa. Well, I don't buy that argument; I don't believe a guy in Peru considers himself American rather than Peruvian just because he lives in the western hemisphere. And I am sure there were indigenous people in Jamaica subjugated into slavery by the British and Dutch who were not brought from Africa.
I remain curious about the motives behind multiple media outlets that attribute African American ancestry to a candidate who has not professed as much herself, yet has not corrected them either.
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The motives for hiding Harris's ancestry seem to be different than the motives of hiding Obama's ancestry.
Being "black" seems to have helped Camel Toe's career, as well as Berry's.
Their heritage is another thing though.