No, Harris is not the first colored woman to be nominated for vice president

[Anti Federalist]

That honor goes to Ezola Foster.

[jmdrake]

That honor goes to Ezola Foster.

Interesting. And on the left, Lenora Fulani was the first black woman presidential nominee, having done this prior to Foster being nominated for VP. Fulani even got ballot access in all 50 states.

But shhhhh.....don't tell anyone there are more than two parties. That's a secret!

[VIDEODROME]

[Anti Federalist]

Interesting. And on the left, Lenora Fulani was the first black woman presidential nominee, having done this prior to Foster being nominated for VP. Fulani even got ballot access in all 50 states.

But shhhhh.....don't tell anyone there are more than two parties. That's a secret!

You're right, I forgot her run...the media coverage of Harris is putrid.

Interesting twist is to note, according to the wiki entry, she, Fulani, is now working within the center-right/populist "Independence Party" in NY.

[Anti Globalist]

People will argue that those women don't count because they weren't nominated by a major party.

[Valli6]

People will argue that those women don't count because they weren't nominated by a major party.

Yep. They belive it only counts when they've been chosen by the elitists.

By the way - it would be interesting to hear which "caste" Harris' Indian mother's family belongs to (having married into family that had owned a plantation with 124 slaves, and all).
https://www.westernjournal.com/kamal...ll-left-cancel

We never hear anyone speak about the Indian privilege enjoyed by the upper levels of India's well-known caste system - which has never really been eradicated.

[Anti Federalist]

I think dad does not care for her at all.


Kamala Harris' Jamaican father rips her for pushing pot stereotype 'in pursuit of identity politics'

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...harris-rips-2/

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Tuesday, February 19, 2019

When Sen. Kamala Harris said last week that she obviously supports marijuana legalization and has smoked the plant, she cited her ethnicity — “Half my family’s from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?”

Her Jamaican father is not happy about that.

In a statement to Jamaica Global Online, Donald Harris called his daughter’s remarks a “travesty” and accused her of stereotyping.

“My dear departed grandmother … 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,” he said.

“Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty,” Mr. Harris, an economics professor at Stanford University, concluded in a statement to the news site for the Jamaican diaspora.

Jamaica Global fretted that the remarks by Ms. Harris — an early front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — could fuel stereotypes of Jamaicans and cited U.S. news outlets’ headlines and columnists using the image.

“For some, it is more than mere unease; one Jamaican commenting on social media expressed the concern that ‘soon my job will be singling me out to drug test me since I am from Jamaica. What a stereotype.’ Her concern is not unfounded given the experience of Jamaicans travelling to US ports having sniffer dogs around them in customs halls,” Jamaica Global wrote.

Jamaica Global also noted the “ironic twist” that while Ms. Harris‘ father is Jamaican, her mother is from India, and that the practice of using marijuana as a mild hallucinogenic drug was Indian and brought to Jamaica when both nations were British colonies.

Marijuana was “popularized by Indian indentured immigrants who began to arrive from 1845. The local name ‘ganja’ is Indian. The concept of ganja as a holy herb is a Hindu one,” historian Oliver Senior wrote, according to Jamaica Global.

[Danke]