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The Willful Amnesia Racism Behind Trump’s Attacks on Harris’s Identity

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Last week, former President Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee, told a room full of Black journalists that Vice President Kamala Harris, whose mother was Indian and whose father is Jamaican, “was always of Indian heritage” and “now wants to be known as Black.” When he did so, he was embracing a convenient historical amnesia about the country he seeks to lead.

She’s talking about national amnesia about the past.

…These laws determined not only that people of African ancestry were inherently enslavable, but also that the children of European men and enslaved African women would also be enslaved. Their “whiteness” would not be recognized, and they would be entitled to none of the rights the white colonists were crafting for themselves.

…The premise of the so-called “one-drop rule” is that any person who has even a drop of Black blood is Black. Under this law, despite Harris’s being of both Jamaican and Indian heritage, she would have legally been considered Black.

Amnesia? It was like 4 days ago, nobody’s forgotten shit

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