Flashback: California's Kamala Harris becomes first Indian-American US senator

Discussion in 'Politics' started by wildchild, Aug 5, 2024.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading


    Let's catch up with the actual AP press article in 2016.

    "Harris will enter the chamber as the first Indian woman elected to a Senate seat and the second black woman, following Carol Moseley Braun, who served a single term after being elected in 1992".


    Meet California’s new US senator, Kamala Harris
    https://apnews.com/united-states-co...tates-senate-0f65a4bba07344bfb2c6650ff02a27b7

    Kamala Devi Harris will change the U.S. Senate by walking through the door.

    Harris will enter the chamber as the first Indian woman elected to a Senate seat and the second black woman, following Carol Moseley Braun, who served a single term after being elected in 1992.

    The daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica gives national Democrats a new face with an appealing resume — a career prosecutor and attorney general in the nation’s most populous state — and a lineage that fits squarely with the party’s goal to mirror a changing country.

    By 2050, minorities are projected to be the majority in the U.S., as they are in California, and women are a majority in every state. Harris, who takes a seat in a Senate that remains overwhelmingly white and male, defeated another Democrat, Rep. Loretta Sanchez, in Tuesday’s election.

    (More at above url)
     
    #41     Aug 6, 2024
  2. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Oh, I've no doubt you're telling the truth about everything and you'll be back to reply.
     
    #42     Aug 6, 2024
  3. Tuxan

    Tuxan


    Don't hold your breath waiting as I'm busy, but you can catch up here:

     
    #43     Aug 6, 2024
  4. wildchild

    wildchild

    You also dont have me denying being black, that doesnt mean I am black.

    She is a phony.
     
    #44     Aug 6, 2024
  5. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    There's nothing in that quote that addresses anything in my question to you. It's OK. I don't actually expect you to try to answer. It leads down a path you won't want to go.
     
    #45     Aug 7, 2024
  6. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    I'll answer but I want to give a good answer, not just a jaded one. I wasn't planning to forget.
     
    #46     Aug 7, 2024
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  7. Kamala isn't black in the truest meaning of the word as we have come to know it, but she is black enough to satisfy the pandering left. What's much more important is she'll do whatever her white liberal masters tell her to do.
     
    #47     Aug 7, 2024
  8. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    @Tsing Tao

    I got nothing, I don't see how there is any difficulty in understanding that mixed race people occupy both spaces.

    The people I know like Kamala have the same things going on with things from different columns, food, music, funerals.

    Kamala is a big fan of jazz, she likes her mother's Indian heritage cooking. Have you been to Jamaica? They have a fusion of both Indian and Afro going on.

    Something white European origin Amercian mutts are casually blind to very often is that we are conscious of distinct European origins, German, French, Italian etc but just think Africa or Indian when those places have their own wildly differing regions. It is not as simple as even saying African or SE Asian to them.

    I just don't see how there is any difficulty with being two or more things in parallel and this not being dishonest.
     
    Last edited: Aug 12, 2024
    #48     Aug 12, 2024
  9. ipatent

    ipatent

    Her father wasn't an American black, and he wasn't around to raise her. She is culturally Indian-American, but for some reason she identifies as black. I don't doubt that, because she chose a black college. But she is a stranger to the black experience in America, whatever that is.
     
    #50     Aug 16, 2024