How Kamala Harris Became Black
Donald J. Harris Had Something to Do With It
Donald J. Harris is the father of Kamala Harris, whose ethnicity was recently challenged by Donald Trump in an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Convention. Mr. Trump falsely claimed that Kamala, until recently, only acknowledged the Indian heritage of her mother. Trump implied that Kamala suddenly realized some advantage to being Black and switched up, turning Black as if turning on a light switch.
Donald J. Harris was born in Jamaica, a place Trump believes is a shithole country. He is of African descent, with at least some Irish mixed in. His paternal grandfather told him she was descended from Hamilton Brown, who founded the local Anglican Church and owned at least 1120 slaves. There is a technical term for how a slave owner produces a child from someone he enslaves; it’s called rape, no matter how holy the background of the rapist. Harris’s grandmother wasn’t pure Black, and neither was Donald’s parents, who were Afro-Jamaicans, Black by any other name. Kamala isn’t pure Black, her father having mixed lineage and her mother of Indian heritage. I can’t say for sure I’ve ever met a Black person born in America who is pure Black, but I know plenty of Black people.
