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philip964 wrote: Thu Aug 20, 2020 11:56 pm

pushpullpete wrote: Thu Aug 20, 2020 11:55 am

philip964 wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2020 12:08 pm

92f-fan wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:48 am Its a rough question to ask in public, but Im curious. She has Jamaican and indian parents. So genetically she is half of each. But she gets to pick being either Black or Indian as it serves her ? Confused.
Follow up, can she call herself "African American " if she is from Jamaica ? I know that Jamaican ancestors came from Africa, but if we are able to pick continents from thousands of years ago wouldn't we also be able to go back further than Africa ? Maybe include Pangea ? Pangean-American would be MUCH more inclusive.

These days people "identify" as all kinds of things so maybe nothing should surprise me any more.
I guess Im easily confused by the current process of picking and choosing your ancestry and your orientation from a grab bag.
All this PC stuff drives me crazy ...

https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a2 ... is-father/

Picture of her father. I believe he belives he is African Irish. Her mom is 100% Indian. So that would make her 50% Indian, 25% Irish 25% African.

I would be interesting if she did a Ancestry DNA test before the election.

https://apnews.com/afs:Content:9240201328 Says she has used both for some time. Went to a historically black college.

Supposedly her mom raised her Black. So she identifies as Black. She was born in the US so she could call herself African American, Euro American or Indian American. I find it interesting that no one wants to use their "white privilege" but prefer to express their minor African or Native American roots.

Bold, Red is mine.
I don't care for her either way, however, I thought her mother was from the country of India, NOT Native American ?

In that sentence I did not mean Harris. In general it seems that some people of mixed race tend to express their heritage as anything but White. Obama is 50/50 but expressed this heritage as black. Liz Warren is 0% Native American, but expressed her heritage as Native American. It is so odd since White has so many privileges in America and throughout the world.

pushpullpete wrote: Fri Aug 21, 2020 12:56 pm Gotcha Sir, Thank You. Not saying that you are, but she & others refer to themselves as African American, Mexican American,European American etc. etc. . . How are people born in more than one place/country ? I understand American w African heritage and so on. I find it
hard to understand why people have to pigeon hole themselves or anyone else. I believe that in itself serves to do little more than to
perpetuate racial bias in general. I feel that those who demand to be recognized as white American, black American, brown American etc. . are working toward separating Americans in general and are NOT wanting our country to survive. Yeah, that's a surprise.
Sorry, too early for this. Y'all have a GREAT DAY.

philip964 wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 12:01 am https://news.yahoo.com/not-hidden-racis ... 07322.html

pronouncing her name incorrectly is racist.

its Kamala (comma la) so you won't be racist.

92f-fan wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:28 pm like other posters here, Im confused as to how one gets to pick which country they identify as coming from ... Im about 50/50 german and Irish, I wouldn't just pick one and say Im only German, or mostly german. That makes so sense. If you consider my attitude Im more German, if you consider my freckles, and my affinty for beer, Im more Irish. Im both, always will be, and always will carry the best and worst of BOTH to every interaction.

Maybe we should all pick "non binary " as our race to make things easier with less drama.

philip964 wrote: Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:07 pm https://nypost.com/2020/09/15/kamala-ha ... istration/

Refers to Harris Administration.

Too many late night meetings discussing what they will do after Joe is gone?

srothstein wrote: Tue Sep 15, 2020 9:16 pm

philip964 wrote: Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:07 pm https://nypost.com/2020/09/15/kamala-ha ... istration/

Refers to Harris Administration.

Too many late night meetings discussing what they will do after Joe is gone?

I don't think they will wait that long. Remember this is the group that was trying to get Trump removed as medically unfit. If I understand the law correctly, if something happens to the party presidential nominee between the convention and election day, the party gets to name the candidate. If something happens to the president-elect, the vice president-elect moves up. It would not surprise me to see that come into play this election.