blockburna420
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There’s a serious war going on right now regarding Kamala Harris blackness and her lineage
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StretfordRed
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Interesting, although it was 9 years ago, I'm sure she feels the same.
I guess she is AA, but never called herself ADOS (or did she). So I am confused where the argument of her not being ADOS is coming up (which is what I actually was meant to ask in the first place, not AA)
On another note:
StretfordRed
Afro-European
I'm not even a Harris fan, she is actually not my favourite Dem candidate because of her Jewish/Israeli outright support - but this is where ADOS shout be backing her down, politically rather than racially. That shyt doesn't win points and is easy for her to deflect off
blockburna420
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Why is it she claimed AA, it would be honest if she claimed she was a black woman.
StretfordRed
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I can only presume the politically correct term for people in public office is AA, even if you aren't directly African and she just rolled with it. I aint defending her on any of this - I am pretty much against her, but I don't want her to get beaten up online over her race, just to grow in stature and popularity offline
Stuff that shows she's shytty is her history as DA, human rights and her attitude to Israel (even her husband is a Jew which could influence her decisions):
blockburna420
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Indian mother and cac husband and she claimed she was the top cop. Ain't like i expect her to say she a real nikka cause she not. Oh so you scared to say you a black woman
Dwayne_Taylor
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A lot of of black people were disappointed by Obama. Harris and Booker are too much like him. And people don't want to be disappointed againSo Y'all were OK with Obama who was born from a Kenyan father and white mother.. Didn't get swayed then by the Obama is a Muslim terrorist who's not from here rhetoric. . but have issues with kamala Harris representing black people? Cause she isn't ADOS?
Sadly 9:1 but that proved to be the difference in some states. I just don’t see a lot of anglos and latinos for her.
Again what does that have to do with ADOS in 2019?
What is that going to do for my community economic to obsess over a people and civilization that existed 2000 years ago?
Please direct me to where Haitians and Jamaicans are saying they are ADOS? No one is coming for your reparations, but at the same time no one here gets to dictate anyone's blackness or discount anyone's experience growing up as black in America. This what some do and it creates a rift.
It's the CNN poll, anyone who takes them serious are usually older people who just know whats going on by watching the news. This is a different era, and the people who count don't watch CNN seriously.
What's scary is she is still only at 19% with non white voters. If this is coming from their polls, she is much worse over all!
I think this is the issue.
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
Just bc you missed the conversation don't mean it wasn't had. Even on the coli, I remember people claiming to be AA just bc they grew up here.
Which is why we invented ADOS in the first place. Now everybody gon play dumb. 
She is going to get the larger share of the Black middle and professional class vote.
Howard University is going to put weight behind her so they can make the claim that they can count an alumna as President. And I’m sure other HBCUs will as well from the angle that an HBCU graduate made it to the Office of the Presidency.
The AKAs and the rest of the BGLOs are going to put weight behind her so they can claim a President among their ranks.
And the Links, and by default, the Boule, are going to put weight behind her so they can make similar claims.
Obama didn’t come from their ranks. Harris, at least on paper, does. So she is going to get a lot of support from the HBCU/BGLO crowd.
NYT just came out with how Kamala’s “secret weapon” are the AKAs that she got rallying behind her.
Kamala Harris’s Secret Weapon: The Sisterhood of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Lots of black professional clicques got stakes in her presidency, something that Obama didn’t have.
I feel like I'm experiencing deja vu with this current election cycle.
This was an interesting thread here regarding Keisha Lance Bottoms endorsing Joe Biden.
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/atlanta’s-black-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-officially-endorses-joe-biden-for-president.717534/
This is strangely reminiscent to the devout support the black establishment initially put behind Hilary out of loyalty to Bill (see Roland Martin). It was only until Valerie Jarrett stepped in that we started to see a mass exodus of support from Clinton to Obama among the establishment. It's important to note that Valerie Jarrett's uncle, Vernon Jordan, was Clinton's right hand man, and one of the most powerful men in Washington DC.
And I think out of loyalty to Obama, many are putting their weight behind Biden.
Desiree Rogers, even though working alongside Biden in the Obama Administration, just came out in support of Harris and I gather much of the Chicago Obama camp is rallying behind her as well.
Unlike the Coli, for many, there seems to be no question with respect to Kamala's loyalty to the black community because she has embraced many of the "accoutrements" of "blackness" deemed as "important" among the black establishment.
In addition to choosing to attend Howard University, she chose to pledge Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
Kamala is in the top row, fourth from left with the shades on.
That would be enough for many of these folks.
But she was also inducted into the Links, Inc.
And if anyone knows anything about the Links, they would not have inducted her if her blackness and service to the black community was not the top most priority.
So I also think her induction sealed the deal for many people.
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