Identity politics

Kamala Harris learned she is our “color.” She just ain’t our “kind.”

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris can get away with calling herself “black,” an “African American,” a “person of color” and even a “sister.”  What she can’t call herself is a “Descendant of U.S. Slaves” as a way to create a “political base” affiliation with the nation’s 2nd largest demographic group.  Descendants of U.S. Slaves who call themselves “black” number 48 million behind 50 million German Americans. While she can claim the “color” of the nation’s 2nd largest ethnic demographic, Harris can’t claim to be our “kind” as the descendant of an Irish owner of Africans stolen into Jamaica’s slave trade.  According…

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