Kamala Harris blasted by her own dad for pushing negative stereotypes about Jamaicans

American Thinker ^ | 02/19/2019 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

For someone running for the president of the U.S. on a politically correct identity politics ticket, it sure doesn't look good when you gratuitously throw out a negative stereotype of anyone. If you're shameless enough, not a problem. But when your own dad calls you out, yes, there is a problem.

The blowback is here for Kamala Harris, who in a bid to pander to the pot vote, promoted the scuzzy stereotype of Jamaica as the pothead nation.

Much of the attention from her disastrous interview with 'Charlemagne tha God' on a Bay Area radio station rightly went to her strange timeline of pot smoking, answering the question of who she listened to when she got high, from Charlamagne tha God and his sidekick, DJEnvy, after she confirmed she smoked pot in college.

Her giggling Cheech-and-Chong-like response was this:

HARRIS: And look, I joke about it — half-joking — half my family’s from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?

Half joking?

That didn't go down well with Harris's father, Stanford University Professor Emeritus Donald Harris, 81, a Jamaican-American who, unlike her, has actually accomplished something. 

I knew this was going to happen. In a devastating article published in MacLean's, the leading Canadian news magazine, the retired professor of economics told a Jamaican news wire that Harris's stereotyping of Jamaicans as potheads - and pursuit of identity politics - was as distasteful as hell.

[SeekAndFind]

MacLean's writes:

Her father exploded.

Donald Harris, 81, professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University, divorced from Shyamala Gopalan since 1972, offered this comment to the website Jamaica Global Online, whose editor, Ian Randle, shared it exclusively with Maclean’s:

My dear departed grandmothers, 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. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.

[PGR88]

Kamala is hoping for the Obama treatment by media.

She’s a leftist, so they will always be favorable, but it appears they are not going to help her manufacture a completely phony persona, character and resume, as occurred with Obama.

[kingu]

And...the crickets are chirping among liberal media about this proper calling out by her father. Nothing to see here; after all, she’d later go on to putting thousands in people in jail for doing what she had already done.

Double standards - the only standards liberals know.

[DesertRhino]

“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!”

Act 1, Scene 4 of William Shakespeare’s King Lear:

[allendale]

Worked with many Jamaicans. If there is a core immigrant constituency for the Republican Party, it is them.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Her Jamaican father made her a Jamaican national at birth.

Her Indian mother made her an Indian national at birth.

She is NOT a natural born citizen.

[central_va]

For those that are ex military the Democrat primary so far is a real Chalie-Foxtrot.

[poconopundit]

Good quote, DesertRhino!

[odawg]

First Willie Brown, now her own father jumps all over her.

[indthkr]

Kamala has “daddy” issues - that explains a lot.

[Skybird]

Kamalala, the “anchor baby” of two foreign nationals at the time of birth, isn’t qualified to run for the office. Not any more so than the offspring of those who take “birthing trips” to the U.S.