The mainstream media gaggle of bedwetters were apoplectic this week, as they churned headlines regarding a question raised by Donald Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual convention. Noticeably absent from the event was Kamala Harris, who is avoiding press conferences. But the conference runs for three more days, and after Trump’s appearance, surely Harris will drop in.

The opening question for Trump was from ABC News talkinghead Rachel Scott, and of course it was loaded with incendiary “missing context” assertions: “A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today. You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals from Nikki Haley to former President Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswomen of color who were American citizens to go back to where they came from. You have used words like ‘animal’ and ‘rabbit’ to describe black attorneys. You’ve attacked black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions that they asked are ‘stupid and racist.’ You’ve had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort. So, my question, sir, now that you were asking black supporters to vote for you: Why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that?”

Trump responded: “I don’t think I’ve ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner, a first question. You don’t even say ‘hello, how are you.’ Are you with ABC? Because I think they’re a fake news network, a terrible network. I think it’s disgraceful … I came here in good spirit. I love the black population of this country; I’ve done so much for the black population of this country. … I don’t know why you would do something like that… I was invited here, and I was told my opponent, whether it was Biden or Kamala, I was told my opponent was going to be here. It turned out, my opponent isn’t here. You invited me under false pretense. … I think it’s a very nasty question.” His reply was applauded by more than a few in attendance.

Then, as he is predisposed to do, Trump dropped this bombshell on Scott regarding Harris’s variable all-inclusive hyphenated racial identity: “I didn’t know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black and now she wants to be known as black. So I don’t know — is she Indian, or is she black? I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t because she was Indian all the way and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a black person. And I think somebody should look into that, too.”

For background, in my column this week, “Who Is the REAL Kamala Harris?” I noted, “The first thing most informed voters already know about Harris is that she checked two very important ‘DEI’ virtue-signaling boxes to become Biden’s VP — the all-important 'female’ and ‘African American’ boxes.‘ (Yes, I know, 'informed voters’ is an oxymoron when referencing Demo constituents.)”

And, despite protest to the contrary, Biden clearly and repeatedly has declared Harris was a DEI hire. In 2019 he said that his VP would be “will be someone who was of color and/or a different gender.” Recently, Biden reiterated that point regarding Harris: “To me, the values of diversity, equality, inclusion are literally — and this is not kidding — the core strengths of America. That’s why I’m proud to have the most diverse administration in history that taps into the full talents of our country. And it starts at the top with the Vice President.”

Regarding that “African American” box, I explained, “Despite the fact that Harris’s parents were from India and Jamaica, the hyphenating race-bait Demo Party ran her as the first ‘African-American’ candidate for vice president and now president. Why? Fact is, she is more ‘Indian-American’ or ‘Asian American.’ She declared in 2019 ahead of her own failed presidential primary campaign, ‘I’m black, and I’m proud of being black. I was born black. I will die black, and I’m not going to make excuses for anybody because they don’t understand.’ But a few years earlier she had been widely heralded as the first ‘Indian-American’ elected to the Senate. So which is it?”

I noted further, “Moreover, the Demo cancel culture mobs should have disqualified her before the 2020 election, because she is the direct descendant of white slave traders. In 2018, her father published an essay on her family lineage, ’Reflections of a Jamaican Father,‘ in which he notes his prominent ancestral 'slave owner’ by the name of Hamilton Brown, an Irishman who enslaved many black people in Jamaica on his sugar plantations. Harris also has other white Irish ancestors, so she is in fact more Indian/Asian than ‘black.’ Of course, Asians are considered by black folks to be a ‘privileged minority,’ so running as ‘the first Indian or Asian American candidate’ does not fit the narrative Harris wants to project.”

For the record, despite all the protests over Trump’s question, he is correct in his assertion that she has attempted to be a lot more than “black,” and all his Leftmedia detractors confirmed that.

For example:

In 2016, the Associated Press headlined, “California’s Kamala Harris becomes first Indian-American US senator.”

Her influential home state capital newspaper noted in 2017, “Watch Kamala Harris sworn in as first Indian-American senator.”

In 2019, The Washington Post declared Harris was “the first woman, the first African American woman, the first Indian American and the first Asian American.”

The echo-chamber Beltway Media repeated that all-inclusive hyphenation charade, with NBC noting, “If elected, Harris would make history in several categories: she would be the first woman, the first African-American woman, the first Asian-American and the first Indian-American to serve as president.”

And remember that time CNN’s Don Lemon shredded Harris’s claim to be “African American”?

In 2020, The New York Times kept the multi-ethnic hyphenation train rolling, asserting, “Harris became the first Black woman on a major party’s presidential ticket. She also became the first Indian-American, South Asian and Asian-American person to be chosen…”

Last week, The New York Times repeated, “When Ms. Harris became vice president in 2020 … she was widely hailed as the first Black woman to assume the role. She was also the first Asian American, the first South Asian, first Indian American and first woman of color.”

Likewise, CNN proclaimed, “She was the nation’s first Indian American senator and California’s first female and South Asian attorney general. Harris is the first woman to become vice president, as well as the first Black or Asian American person to hold the office.”

NPR parroted CNN: “She became the country’s first Indian American senator when she was inaugurated in 2017. She is California’s first female and South Asian attorney general. In 2021, she became the first woman to become vice president, in addition to being the first Black or Asian American person in the position.”

In fact, Harris’s current bio at Britannica notes, “When she took office in January 2017, Harris became the first Indian American and only the second Black American woman in the Senate.”

And to the point, Harris’s own White House bio notes, “Harris was sworn in as Vice President — the first woman, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American to be elected to this position.”

Of course, the Leftmedia’s so-called “fact-checkers” are trying to spin that Harris identifies only as “black.” But even the most left wing of those sites had to declare that a post from Trump a week before questioning how the media defines Harris’s ethnicity, comparing two AP headlines, was true: “We confirmed that the headlines were authentic.”

Harris’s spokes-parrot, Karine Jean-Pierre, called Trump’s remark “repulsive and insulting” and declared: “No one has any right to tell someone who they are, how they identify. … She is the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris. We have to put some respect on her name, period.” To be clear, Trump questioned the various reports about her ethnicity — he did not declare her ethnicity — but there were no fact-checks on KJP. And I should note that this rebuttal came from a lesbian who thinks people have the right to identify as a gender other than their actual gender and demand you use the pronouns of their choice.

Here is the most important takeaway from this dispute: One thing none of these media protests mentions is what Harris would most like to avoid regarding her ethnicity — her white Irish slave-owning heritage on her father’s side. But it’s not too late to charge up the cancel culture machine.

Again, the truth is that Kamala (pronounced “Kameleon”) Harris is more Indian than black.

It is fine for Harris to be proud of all her ethnic heritage, but we should all be AMERICAN first and foremost. Of course, that does not fit the Demos’ hyphenated constituent division agenda.

There are prominent black Americans who object to that agenda, but perhaps the most eloquent objection was penned by JFK’s former senior adviser and noted Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger. In his 1991 book, The Disuniting of America, a benchmark classic on ethnocentric division, he wrote that the “cult of ethnicity” would result in “the fragmentation and tribalization of America.” He warned that multiculturalists are “very often ethnocentric separatists who see little in the Western heritage other than Western crimes.” He further noted that “hyphenated-Americanism” would be a tool of their divisive efforts.

Prophetic.

Footnote: Since Harris is hiding behind the Leftmedia curtain, refusing interviews and having her few economic proposals panned by both left and right side analysts, the RNC launched a website listing Harris’s policy record.

There are some things Harris is clear about. For example, Harris is woke and insists you should be too: “We have to stay woke. Like everybody needs to be woke [cackle cackle cackle]. And you can talk about if you’re the wokest or woker, but just stay more woke than less woke [cackle cackle cackle].”

(Updated)

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