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Kamala Harris’ Own Father Really Just Said This, Watch…
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Kamala Harris has been pandering to the “youth” like her life depends on it lately. Part of that has been bragging about all the weed she smoked back in the day.
(Hilariously, she got caught in a completely pointless lie with this one. She said she smoked weed in college as she listened to Tupac and Snoop Dogg. Neither had released their first album at that time. In fact, neither did until after she graduated from law school. WTH Kamala?)
Anyway… I thought the whole exchange was pretty classless.
…So did her DAD.
It turns out the man is a BOSS. Why didn’t Kamala get THAT from her dad?
According to the Washington Times:
When Sen. Kamala Harris said last week that she obviously supports marijuana legalization and has smoked the plant, she cited her ethnicity — “Half my family’s from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?”
Her Jamaican father is not happy about that.
In a statement to Jamaica Global Online, Donald Harris called his daughter’s remarks a “travesty” and accused her of stereotyping.
That’s EXACTLY right.
I’m kinda shocked he’s being so open about it.
“My dear departed grandmother … as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics,” he said.
…whoa. THAT has to sting.
“Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty,” Mr. Harris, an economics professor at Stanford University, concluded in a statement to the news site for the Jamaican diaspora.
DAAAAMN, Mr. Harris. Do NOT hold back.
Jamaica Global fretted that the remarks by Ms. Harris — an early front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — could fuel stereotypes of Jamaicans and cited U.S. news outlets’ headlines and columnists using the image.
“For some, it is more than mere unease; one Jamaican commenting on social media expressed the concern that ‘soon my job will be singling me out to drug test me since I am from Jamaica. What a stereotype.’ Her concern is not unfounded given the experience of Jamaicans traveling to US ports having sniffer dogs around them in customs halls,” Jamaica Global wrote.
He’s EXACTLY right – but again, I am SHOCKED that he just shredded her so publicly.
Good for him. He’s entirely right. Maybe she’ll re-think some of what she does and says. But I doubt it.
Christmas miiiiight be awkward this year, huh?