"The code-switching especially irritates racist white people, who argue that it’s pandering and disingenuous. (They probably just hate feeling left out of some “secret” language.)"
It's not the same as code switching, but similar- do these same people get pissed off when white people with immigrant parents pepper their English with words from the old country? I can imagine they get annoyed with Yiddish, and almost certainly with Spanish, but what about Polish or Italian? As I gather, they take that the other way- as a sign of authenticity, and not forgetting your roots, which they won't allow a Black person.
I wonder why Trump cares so much about likely President Harris’ ethnicity. Does being bi-racial mean he can double the amount of racism he feels entitled to toss about? Idiot.
May be off thread but I'm sorry to see that VP's campaign has hired the useful idiot David Plouffe as a "senior advisor". I guess he helped the WSJ and the NYT hound President Biden out of office because they wouldn't pay him. Sorry for our country.
I hope they keep him on a short leash. They need to watch some of these people very closely when they "help." Kinda like Donna Brazile "helped" Hillary Clinton.
Fascists/Racists need everyone to fit their preconceptions and comfort zone, like gender, sexuality, and everything they feel they are able to control how "Others" are defined and should act. This video is accurate in terms of Trump defining being "Asian" as well:
Oh, and another thing: The way Donnie’s warped sick mind works, he may be intentionally dragging the Indian heritage thing in to undermine his own VP pick, with whom he seems less enchanted now that JD is fucking up on live TV big time.
Thank you, Stephen. What a great reminder of the experiences POC, especially women, go through all their lives just to exist in this country, and the useless racist burdens they face constantly, the absence of which white female Boomers like myself unconsciously take for granted.
And so just like that, Donnie’s vile racism is framed as though it’s somehow Kamala’s responsibility to “prove” she’s Black. Or Black enough, I guess. It’s also another one of his sinister insinuations that associates Madam VP with the “vermin” and “animals” that to him are illegal aliens and are invading “our” country and taking the “Black jobs.”
Also: Did Donnie get Kamala Harris mixed up with Nikki Haley?
I subscribe to WaPo and now I wonder why. After that infuriating headline that DonOLD’s racism creates a pivotal moment for Harris, I sent a statement saying this it isn’t her job to clean up HIS mess. It’s his PIVOTAL moment of certain death of a campaign.
Women have wanted a woman president forever!! Kamala tics all the boxes.
yup, dropped my WaPo sub in the spring and only drop in to comment before it runs out in October. The headlines are clickbait nonsense and they are desperately trying to keep Trump propped up as their pick despite the fact he keeps imploding.
I'm now spam commenting Pro-Trump stories that with Trump's dismal performance at the Black Journalists Association where he was yeeted offstage after 38 minutes, all the media should be publishing a relentless drumbeat of 'Trump's too Old and Feeble to be Preznit and Should Step Down' articles and op-eds, you know, like they did for the other guy. Both Sides!!!
As Toni Morrison writes, the indignity lies in having to answer. When did he become orange? I thought he identified as bronze? When did his voice become a grating rusted saw? Where is the husk of his presence , how did it get emptied of virtue?
What a beautiful article. Right now I feel so viscerally angry about this foul, malodorous campaign that I cannot really focus it.
I just want to say to the...let's call them “weak links” that cosign the racist attacks on Kamala Harris for their own misogynistic/colorist ends...especially as they will now dust off the “ADOS” bullshit...
1. Almost all Black Americans (of which Kamala Harris is one) are multiracial. Turn on your brains and think about why that is.
2. Jamaicans, generally like a large number of Black folk in the Western Hemisphere, have British/Anglo last names. Know why?
3. Your anti-Harris bullshit also excludes Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte, for example.
3a. Both Harris' parents marched for our rights in the Civil Rights Movement, even as immigrants. Contrast with the current ladder pullers that support President Klan Robe.
And 4. This line of attack, quantifying Harris' Blackness and doing the birtherism, is in the service of a man who is ALSO a child of two immigrants. Yet he never gets his citizenship questioned. So think about that. You are being played!
Two of PAB's three wives are (were) immigrants. His first three spawn were anchor babies, for Ivana, who never became a US citizen. His youngest spawn is an anchor baby for Melon, who did become a citizen, then facilitated the chain immigration of her parents from whatever former Soviet, shithole, satellite country she is from. EAIAC if you're a racist, misogynist, bigoted Republican.
Kamala is a lame and an imbecile. It is why you need dingbats like Charlamagne tha God to be her hype man. https://tinyurl.com/2zv7343v
Donald Trump is orange, but no one seems to be disputing his ‘conversion.’ Which is actually a thing, unlike Kamala’s actual heritage.
"The code-switching especially irritates racist white people, who argue that it’s pandering and disingenuous. (They probably just hate feeling left out of some “secret” language.)"
It's not the same as code switching, but similar- do these same people get pissed off when white people with immigrant parents pepper their English with words from the old country? I can imagine they get annoyed with Yiddish, and almost certainly with Spanish, but what about Polish or Italian? As I gather, they take that the other way- as a sign of authenticity, and not forgetting your roots, which they won't allow a Black person.
I wonder why Trump cares so much about likely President Harris’ ethnicity. Does being bi-racial mean he can double the amount of racism he feels entitled to toss about? Idiot.
May be off thread but I'm sorry to see that VP's campaign has hired the useful idiot David Plouffe as a "senior advisor". I guess he helped the WSJ and the NYT hound President Biden out of office because they wouldn't pay him. Sorry for our country.
I hope they keep him on a short leash. They need to watch some of these people very closely when they "help." Kinda like Donna Brazile "helped" Hillary Clinton.
"that people exist when he’s not looking at them"
Perfect. Very perceptive.
Fascists/Racists need everyone to fit their preconceptions and comfort zone, like gender, sexuality, and everything they feel they are able to control how "Others" are defined and should act. This video is accurate in terms of Trump defining being "Asian" as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWynJkN5HbQ
Oh, and another thing: The way Donnie’s warped sick mind works, he may be intentionally dragging the Indian heritage thing in to undermine his own VP pick, with whom he seems less enchanted now that JD is fucking up on live TV big time.
I honestly don’t think he’s that clever. As Mary Trump has said in her blog, he’s just a racist.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate!
Boy did Usha Vance pick the wrong horse! Shillbilly actually manages to be WORSE of a husband than Ted "Cancun" Cruz.
Really helpful and informative.
More like this!
I'm going to be "that guy" and point out how incredibly stunning Kamala looks in those old pictures (though Kamala at any age is stunning).
Thank you, Stephen. What a great reminder of the experiences POC, especially women, go through all their lives just to exist in this country, and the useless racist burdens they face constantly, the absence of which white female Boomers like myself unconsciously take for granted.
And so just like that, Donnie’s vile racism is framed as though it’s somehow Kamala’s responsibility to “prove” she’s Black. Or Black enough, I guess. It’s also another one of his sinister insinuations that associates Madam VP with the “vermin” and “animals” that to him are illegal aliens and are invading “our” country and taking the “Black jobs.”
Also: Did Donnie get Kamala Harris mixed up with Nikki Haley?
I subscribe to WaPo and now I wonder why. After that infuriating headline that DonOLD’s racism creates a pivotal moment for Harris, I sent a statement saying this it isn’t her job to clean up HIS mess. It’s his PIVOTAL moment of certain death of a campaign.
Women have wanted a woman president forever!! Kamala tics all the boxes.
Y’all get outta the way and let the Queen rule.
yup, dropped my WaPo sub in the spring and only drop in to comment before it runs out in October. The headlines are clickbait nonsense and they are desperately trying to keep Trump propped up as their pick despite the fact he keeps imploding.
I'm now spam commenting Pro-Trump stories that with Trump's dismal performance at the Black Journalists Association where he was yeeted offstage after 38 minutes, all the media should be publishing a relentless drumbeat of 'Trump's too Old and Feeble to be Preznit and Should Step Down' articles and op-eds, you know, like they did for the other guy. Both Sides!!!
I think they meant "Democracy Dies in Blackness" all along.
I felt that in my soul.
Trump, Republicans and many media outlets are trying to put Kamala Harris through "The Racial Draft" skit from the Chappelle Show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3wUD3AZg4
One of my absolute favorites!
Trump and his ilk are idiots.
And there it is, simple and succinct.
As Toni Morrison writes, the indignity lies in having to answer. When did he become orange? I thought he identified as bronze? When did his voice become a grating rusted saw? Where is the husk of his presence , how did it get emptied of virtue?
What a beautiful article. Right now I feel so viscerally angry about this foul, malodorous campaign that I cannot really focus it.
I just want to say to the...let's call them “weak links” that cosign the racist attacks on Kamala Harris for their own misogynistic/colorist ends...especially as they will now dust off the “ADOS” bullshit...
1. Almost all Black Americans (of which Kamala Harris is one) are multiracial. Turn on your brains and think about why that is.
2. Jamaicans, generally like a large number of Black folk in the Western Hemisphere, have British/Anglo last names. Know why?
3. Your anti-Harris bullshit also excludes Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte, for example.
3a. Both Harris' parents marched for our rights in the Civil Rights Movement, even as immigrants. Contrast with the current ladder pullers that support President Klan Robe.
And 4. This line of attack, quantifying Harris' Blackness and doing the birtherism, is in the service of a man who is ALSO a child of two immigrants. Yet he never gets his citizenship questioned. So think about that. You are being played!
Two of PAB's three wives are (were) immigrants. His first three spawn were anchor babies, for Ivana, who never became a US citizen. His youngest spawn is an anchor baby for Melon, who did become a citizen, then facilitated the chain immigration of her parents from whatever former Soviet, shithole, satellite country she is from. EAIAC if you're a racist, misogynist, bigoted Republican.
Thanks as always for your thoughts, Seth. Much appreciated!
Thank you for your conscientious and thought-provoking writing always!