The Lies About Harris. The Answer is in the Past.

 

Didn't take long for the racist lies to begin about Democratic V.P. Candidate Kamala Harris.

 

     FOX News (and Company) says she could not serve as president in the event of Biden's death because her parents aren't from the U.S. (Even though she was born in the U.S.).

     Her mother is from India and her father from Jamaica. And that produced right-wing whining about her not be "African-American"...and "not Black!"

     Gee, I guess it is up to me to remind those right-wing purists that their political and social ancestors in Alabama and elsewhere made just the opposite argument about "blackness":

"In the South it became known as the "one-drop rule,'' meaning that a single drop of "black blood" makes a person a black. It is also known as the "one black ancestor rule," some courts have called it the "traceable amount rule," and anthropologists call it the "hypo-descent rule," meaning that racially mixed persons are assigned the status of the subordinate group. This definition emerged from the American South to become the nation's definition, generally accepted by whites and blacks. Blacks had no other choice. As we shall see, this American cultural definition of blacks is taken for granted as readily by judges, affirmative action officers, and black protesters as it is by Ku Klux Klansmen."

             (Source: PBS/Frontline)

Otherwise known as your Great-Grandparents etc.

So welcome home. No more arguing about whether the Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate is "black" or not. We'll go by your old rule.