2020 Democrats Defend Harris Against Racist Smears

Many 2020 Democratic candidates stood up for fellow rival Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) this weekend when false claims arose online suggesting that she was lying about her black heritage.


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Just waiting for Orly Taitz to chime in…

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Ah, Orly !..

Her other playmate, the ‘ex anus’-guy will also turn up.

Given that ‘Discobot’ is touching all the old articles, we will see her again…

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segregationists, Donald Trump Jr. retweeted (then deleted) a circulating false claim that Harris was from “Jamaican Slave Owners” and not truly African-American.

I don’t even understand why Republicans think this is some big “gotcha”. Though race doesn’t really have any sort of basis scientifically, we all know people judge your “race” solely on your skin color, not on some deep analysis whether you’re Kenyan, Nigerian, or Caribbean descent.

And when you’re “white”, nobody cares if you’re of Irish, German, or Norwegian descent. You’re just white with all it’s attendent privileges.

They really think you can’t be an American as a person of color.

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We know how the birther BS affected the Obama campaign. More, please.

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Just adding Pete’s tweet as well, since it wasn’t included in the article -

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Not Black enough…

What the hell does that even mean?

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There were some who said the same about Obama because his father was African, not a descendant of slaves. He did OK.

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Great that all her fellow Dems are speaking up but all I can think of is, here we go again. The racist rethugs will try to divide and conquer. Please stop the lies.

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We can’t stop the lies, but we can expose them.

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they won’t stop it. :frowning:

(please note my broken displeasure emoji)

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. I’ll vote for her, but a segment of the electorate will go ape shit over a black + woman.
We could have seen this coming a mile away

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As if…

You might as well ask an NRA member to give up him’s pop gunz.

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The changes Republicans wanted to make to the Census questions was, in effect, a way to relegate people of color to three-fifths of a person. We can’t go back to that, and have to call out racism, sexism, and bigotry wherever we see it.

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I haven’t seen her (Taitz) surface for awhile. She’s in my County. I should check to see if she’s been disbarred. She filled the worst motion for summary judgment I have ever seen. It was so bad that the judge asked to see her bar card. This was about 10 years ago.

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You know, if we all voted together, we really could jam all kinds of ethnicities, orientations etc. down their throats until they got the message. You could make a list of all the fun types of folks that would make their own heads explode and stretch it out for a few decades.

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DJTJ is a POS just like his dad.

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Have to admit they’re getting creative with genealogy, though, as an attack method.

Doesn’t matter that it’s a spurious and ridiculous point, they just throw it out there, and the media will amplify the message just by reporting about it.

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Donald Trump Jr.: “White lies matter!”

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Great. More open racism by the GOP, aided and abetted by Russian spies and the lazy, stupid, and ignorant MSM.

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