ICYMI - Conservatives Try to Disqualify Kamala Harris's Blackness
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🗓️ 23 August 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:05.0 | Kamala Harris, the first ever black woman to be nominated for VP. |
| 0:10.0 | Although according to conservative media, she might not be black enough. |
| 0:15.0 | Some have challenged her racial identity and criticized her for identifying as black when her parents are Jamaican and Indian. |
| 0:23.0 | When we talk about quote, African American, her followers from Jamaica, he had him from Africa, he's from Jamaica. |
| 0:30.0 | So she's not really an American black. |
| 0:34.0 | Kamala Harris is not an African American. |
| 0:36.0 | If you dare raise that, you're attacked, but the truth is she's not. |
| 0:39.0 | She's not African American. |
| 0:41.0 | She doesn't have slave blood. She's not down for the struggle. |
| 0:44.0 | She's constantly talking how she went to an historically black college. |
| 0:47.0 | She is adopting Oakland as her hometown, even though she grew up from the age of seven to the age of 18 in Canada. |
| 0:54.0 | Kamala Harris descended from the largest slave owner, slave owner in Jamaica. |
| 0:59.0 | Kamala Harris seems to be descended less from the legacy of, let's say, Frederick Douglass than she is from the legacy of the plantation itself. |
| 1:08.0 | Wow, that is fascinating. |
| 1:10.0 | And I know a lot of people haven't heard that before, Denash. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay, first of all, being partly descended from a slave owner is one of the blackest things that can happen to you. |
| 1:21.0 | In fact, you know who was also the descendant of a slave owner? Frederick Douglass. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, so the guy you just tried to use as an example of someone who is super black is also by your metric not black enough. |
| 1:31.0 | Look, ma'am, you can dissect Kamala Harris's heritage however you want. |
| 1:37.0 | But to say she's not black, ask yourself this question. |
| 1:41.0 | Is she black enough to get kicked out of a restaurant back in the day in the Jim Crow South? Huh? |
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