08-24-2020, 05:44 PM
(08-24-2020, 04:55 PM)PhilHos Wrote: I admit, I'm not as in the loop politically or keeping up with the news as much as I should, but who has debated Kamala's "blackness"? Amongst all the criticism for Kamala being Biden's VP pick, I've not heard any prominent individual claim she wasn't black enough. Like I said, I'm not as in the loop as I'd like to be so I'm sure someone will let me know who has.
Well, if you watched that montage of Fox News and 600 club commentary compiled by Trevor Noah then you would see people questioning Kamala's "Blackness." I.e., the question whether she had the "American experience" of blackness and whether she is an African-American (since her father was from Jamaica). Maybe she is really Indian? The question they raise is whether she is Black AMERICAN enough. As Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh put it, she is not African AMERICAN enough or at all. Doesn't have "slave blood."
Perhaps it is who counts a "prominent individual." Maybe you don't consider Rush, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Pat Robertson "prominent."
I'd consider Trump a prominent individual, though he has not been questioning WHETHER Kamala is black. Indian, Jamaican, African--its all the same to him. He has been questioning her citizenship. Another form of questioning Black "credentials."