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Trevor Noah - Conservatives are debating Kamala's Blackness...just like they did Obama's. (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2020 OP
Because questioning an opponent's Sugarcoated Sep 2020 #1
I think her heritage is well-known, and she doesn't pretend to be anything else. JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2020 #2
There Really Is Only One Standard In This Country, Ma'am The Magistrate Sep 2020 #3
IKR? StarfishSaver Sep 2020 #6
There is no reason to debate it. 23andMe does an excellent analysis. Klaralven Sep 2020 #4
To them I say: Yawl made the rules. Live with them StarfishSaver Sep 2020 #5

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,336 posts)
2. I think her heritage is well-known, and she doesn't pretend to be anything else.
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 06:04 AM
Sep 2020

Same with Obama, well, except for his birth in Kenya, of course.

The Magistrate

(95,244 posts)
3. There Really Is Only One Standard In This Country, Ma'am
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 07:38 AM
Sep 2020

Could you have been sold at auction in New Orleans circa 1850?

No question at all she meets that, the old 'one drop' rule.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
6. IKR?
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 08:14 AM
Sep 2020

My ancestors who had little more than one drop in them would have loved to have been classified according to the standards these people now try to apply.

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