Rep. Byron Donalds said former President Donald Trump’s comments about Vice President Kamala Harris are being blown out of proportion.
The former president has come under fire in recent days for suggesting last week that Ms. Harris hid her blackness — her father is Jamaican and her mother Indian — until recently because of political convenience.
Mr. Donalds, who is Black, said Sunday that “I don’t really care [and] most people don’t” about the remarks, but still offered a qualified defense.
“This is really a phony controversy,” Mr. Donalds said on ABC’s “This Week” talk show. “But if we’re going to be accurate, when Kamala Harris went into the United States Senate, it was AP that said she was the Indian-American United States senator. It was actually played up a lot.”
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“But if we’re going to be accurate, when Kamala Harris went into the United States Senate, it was AP that said she was the Indian-American United States senator. It was actually played up a lot.”
It’s weird that he thinks he’s made some kind of point here.
“It’s AP’s fault. They made her race a controversy years ago…”
Super weird.
Dude built his cult on the back of publicly questioning Obama’s citizenship and now the fuckers are shocked that he’s a racist?
His father (who was arrested marching with the KKK) and him were fined for discrimination against people of color at Trump properties. There are stories of him purposely hiring immigrants (and/or undocumented workers) and then pay them pennies on the dollar (or not at all). He also allegedly would hide any workers of color when he knew a mob boss would be visiting his casinos. He also took out full pay ads calling for the death penalty for the Central Park 5.
The list just goes on and on …
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She’s biracial. She is both Indian and black.
Why is this so hard for them to understand?
Because the world is (literally) black and white to them. Conservatives lack the kind of intellectual thought needed to think critically about things.
“I don’t really care [and] most people don’t”
Sure, most people don’t. Sure. Tell yourselves that.
The former president has come under fire in recent days for suggesting last week that Ms. Harris hid her blackness — her father is Jamaican and her mother Indian — until recently because of political convenience.
Even if that were true, the conditions encouraging someone to hide their race weren’t created by Kamala Harris. They were created by racist bigots. And racist bigots these days tend to gravitate towards one party more than the other.
They’re divided. Half of them think it’s fine to be openly racist, and the others think they should stick to dog whistles and denials until after the election.
Yeah, why didn’t AP said she would be the tenth back senator instead of the first Indian one 😡
It’s almost like the first of something is more newsworthy than the tenth (or whatever the real number is - chatgpt said/hallucinated 10)
Or just the first Indian-Black one. Why does she have to pick one?
Because racial identity matters too much to many.
