DONALD HARRIS SLAMS HIS DAUGHTER SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS FOR FRAUDULENTLY STEREOTYPING JAMAICANS AND ACCUSES HER OF PLAYING IDENTITY POLITICS

Jamaica Global Online ^ | 2/15/19 | Jamaica Global

[Jimmy Valentine]

This one won’t “ buff out”

[Guenevere]

Bttt

[P.O.E.]

We had a guy in our office who tried to pull the yah mon rasta pot smoking b.s. on a Jamaican colleague. She ripped him a new one, basically saying don’t you dare associate me with those lowlifes from the wrong side of the tracks.

[Tunehead54]

KH Reference bump. Thanks. ;-)

[MAGAthon]

Snopes doesn’t take her father for his word...and issues a warning:

2 Jul 2019: Snopes: Did U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris’ Ancestor Own Slaves in Jamaica?
Based on an article written by the 2020 presidential Democratic primary candidate’s father, right-leaning opponents dove head-first into an ill-judged attack on her.
By Dan MacGuill
Claim: U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris is descended from the 19th-century slave owner Hamilton Brown.
Rating: unproven

On Jan. 13, Jamaica Global, a website for the global Jamaican diaspora, published an article that Prof. Harris had written in September 2018 about his family’s roots in Jamaica...
In his Jamaica Global article, Harris claimed to be descended from the 19th-century planter and slave owner Hamilton Brown...

There is no doubt that Hamilton Brown was a prominent plantation owner in Jamaica during the first half of the 19th century, owned slaves, and also advocated against the abolition of slavery and sought to downplay the difficult working and living conditions of slaves in Jamaica.
However, we have been unable to verify that a line of descent exists between the modern-day Harris family and the 19th-century slave owner. As such, the claim that an ancestor of Sen. Harris owned slaves in Jamaica remains unproven. If evidence emerges that verifies that line of descent, we will update this fact check accordingly...

(Stanford University agreed to send Donald Harris our request for any evidence that might corroborate his claim that his grandmother was a descendant of the planter Hamilton Brown. Unfortunately, we did not receive a response of any kind)...

Even if it is the case that the Harris family, by way of Christiana Brown, are descendants of Hamilton Brown, those who seek to attack or undermine Sen. Harris for the wrongdoing of a man who died almost 200 years ago should first gain a better understanding of the often complicated, traumatic histories of black families in the United States — and tread much more carefully.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kamala-harris-ancestor-slaves/