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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a whole lot of ink being spilled hoping to put wedges between Kamala Harris and her own family / communities. Blood is thicker than water, people. Her communities have known her for 60 years. Who thinks they're going to suddenly disown her over election year politics? Everyone knows who she is and where she came from. At least everyone who knew her name before 2020[/quote]

I don’t think there is a black person alive who is going to decide Kamala Harris isn’t black because DT said so.  He is trying to make her seem sneaky and untrustworthy to white people.  We’ll see how many people fall for this.  It seems sort of flat to me because it has no basis in reality.[/quote]

I do think that they think they may peel off some black voters with this line of attack. That's why they're trying it out. But without any black people in the room to provide some cultural competence, they are trying out messages that are in and of themselves racist.

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No, there are very few black or Indian voters who are going to give this much thought.  They are already proud of having a member of their community being a candidate and they will support that candidate over the known racist, white-supremacist Trump.

What Trump is trying to do is peel white identity politics voters away from the Democrats.  There are borderline Democratic/Independent votes who are willing to be be swayed because they think they need to bend over backwards to help URM.  So voting for a minority black woman is a signal that they aren't racist themselves.  These are the people that Trump is trying to sway.  He's trying to convince these people that Harris is not black enough or that Harris is not Indian enough or that she tries to hide one side of her racial identity or ignores issues for her "community".

Blacks are not going to believe that she is not black enough.  Indians are not going to believe that she is not Indian enough.  If anything, these communities will believe that it is better to get her in office and then appeal to her sense of self-identification with their group to sway her to be more involved in their causes.  She is the first step that many are waiting for (or second step in the case of black Americans).  [/quote]

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