First South Asian President in the US?

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Anonymous wrote:

I thought she was afro-American.

She isn’t African-American/American Descendant of Slavery.

Descendent of Caribbean slavery. Like Colin Powell, Jennifer Carroll, Winston Duke, Lester Holt, Lenny Kravitz, Daymond John, Eric Holder, Sydney Poitier, Susan Rice, Neil daGrasse Tyson, Malcolm X, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can’t wait until tonight.

Yeah. I’m doing no celebrating or getting emotional until much much later. Don’t want to jinx it. 2016 is still fresh in my mind.

[Anonymous]

Do Trumpers not think there are any black people in Jamaica?

[Anonymous]

I think people see what they want to see in her. She seems to mostly lean into her black ancestry. Anything else is a reach.

[Anonymous]

She identifies as both Black and Indian. All of us who have followed her closely have seen how much love and pride she speaks about her dual heritage.

Her introduction to the concepts of equality, freedom and democracy came from her Indian grandfather, Ms. Harris said, with whom she went on long walks during her visits to Chennai. “It is these lessons I learned at a very young age that first inspired my interest in public service,” she said.

Ms. Harris grew up in California, the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, and she identifies as Black and South Asian.

In India, her sudden elevation to likely presidential nominee after President Biden’s exit from the race has added to a general sense of pride in the country’s rise in global stature, though Indian news coverage has not focused much on her Indian heritage. While Ms. Harris maintains family ties in Tamil Nadu and has talked about her visits every other year to India as a child, she has not made any official trips to India as vice president.

Her candidacy resonates more in the Indian American community, even if Ms. Harris is seen as identifying more as Black than as Indian. Many Indian Americans see Ms. Harris as another example of the diaspora’s success and influence, including in politics, with growing numbers of Indian American lawmakers and candidates at the highest levels. (The five members of the House with Indian roots sometimes use the nickname “samosa caucus.”)

[Anonymous]

I think people see what they want to see in her. She seems to mostly lean into her black ancestry. Anything else is a reach.

Yep! She’s using America’s racist “one-drop rule” to her advantage.

[Anonymous]

Also from the same migration as Sundar Pillai, Satya Nadella, Dinesh D'Souza, Bobby Jindal, Vivek Murthy, Preet Bharara, and a whole lot of Americans.

All of you people trying to split Harris into puzzle pieces have really lost the plot. She is an American.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are my DMV Desis at? I'm feeling so proud today, I took my twin daughter and son to the polls and have been sharing the stories of Kamala's childhood and her fabulous mom Shyamala!

Harris will be a first Female American President.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also from the same migration as Sundar Pillai, Satya Nadella, Dinesh D'Souza, Bobby Jindal, Vivek Murthy, Preet Bharara, and a whole lot of Americans.

All of you people trying to split Harris into puzzle pieces have really lost the plot. She is an American.

Sundar and Satya were born and raised in India. They hold an American citizenship now, which is quite different from the rest who grew up in America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can’t wait until tonight.

Yeah. I’m doing no celebrating or getting emotional until much much later. Don’t want to jinx it. 2016 is still fresh in my mind.

Smart move.
I am for Kamala but I think Trump has more chance of winning.

[Anonymous]

You have hardly seen any threads referencing this so far, cos she is Indian by name only.

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"If you ain't voting for me, you ain't Indian."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think people see what they want to see in her. She seems to mostly lean into her black ancestry. Anything else is a reach.

She gravitated toward the black community, such as the 3rd Baptist Church in San Francisco that has been her congregation for decades.

[Anonymous]

I thought she was American

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I thought she was afro-American.

She isn’t African-American/American Descendant of Slavery.

That whole "ADOS" thing is like a weird cult. They actually try to claim that Afro-Caribbean descendants of slaves were never slaves, aren't black, never faced any struggle, have absolutely no ethnicity, heritage or culture in common, and so on. Makes no sense.