Sal wrote: bigdog wrote:
Why would I care if her husband is white? I care about whatever candidate my party nominates being truthful because we don't need a candidate who the Repukes can say is a liar, so what possible difference does it make that Trump is a liar too.
As for the comment that the schools were integrated before her birth in Berkeley, that part is true, However, it was the high schools that were integrated and not the elementary schools. There were 13 elementary schools, and they did make the decision to integrate them by busing the year before Harris began school. That part is true. And yes, Pkr is wrong. But she was not entirely truthful on that stage Thursday night. Her pretending she knows anything about the kind of prejudice African Americans went through In the 60's as a little girl is a blatant lie. She lived in Canada, not the US. She lived with her Indian mother and not with her Jamaican father. Her mother was very well-to-do, she was a respected doctor. So the poor little black girl stuff is stealing a story from African Americans that does not belong to her. No way did she experience one minute of the kind of hate that was here in the US in the late 60's and 70's, because she was NOT HERE. If you think I shouldn't point it out, just wait until Fox news starts In on it. And yes, she had an affair with Willie Brown, and Willie Brown even claims he helped her in her career. Should I not believe him because he is a black man?
Don't get me wrong, I'll vote for her if she gets the nomination. But Thursday night was my first impression of her, and it didn't show me an honest person. Corey Booker knows what African American life was like for a black child in this country, she doesn't. But she can cry better tears, I'll give her that.
Believe me, I get where you're coming from ....
.... she's not black ENOUGH.
Heard the thing about Obama.
I can't believe we have to put up with this horseshit even from our own side.
Sheesh ...,
No, she's not black enough if she is going to run her campaign on having been a poor little mistreated black girl, because that is basing her campaign on a lie. She was a well-to-do part black child who grew up in Canada. Prior to that she was in Berkeley, probably the most liberal city in America at the time. You may be too young to remember that part. This ain't no Alabama sharecropper's daughter we're talking about here.
There's nothing horseshit about asking for the truth. Obama did not run on his blackness, not that I can remember. I voted for Obama twice. I've always respected him and Michelle for the ways they have discussed race. This is the first national forum Harris has had, and she hits on her race and does it hard. There were kids who wouldn't play with her because she was black, she said. That was the most emotional line in the debate. Why? Because we all know what it's like to have been children who other children spurned, especially if we were poor in America, or unattractive in America, or talked funny, or looked goofy, or whatever, some of us all of the above. Her "problem" was that she was black in America. Until the age of 6. Because at 7, she was out of here. Her mother took her away from America during the heart of the Civil Rights movement when other American kids were experiencing severe prejudice and took her to Canada to live. Ms Harris is a good lawyer and she chose, intentionally, to be disingenuous. Maya Angelou said when someone shows you who they are the first time, believe them.
If she gets the nomination, I hope she can change my mind about her before I have to hold my nose and vote. But for right now, she isn't a totally honest person. If you can't see that, tough. You're not looking hard.
As for Corey Booker questioning Biden's abilities, that's fair game in politics.
I would enthusiastically vote for Corey, in spite of his stand on reparations, because he is a pretty amazing person on a personal basis as well as in political life. Ms Harris still has to prove herself. I haven't seen the lady run into any burning buildings lately, and she put a lot of African Americans behind bars during her career as well.
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