Per NPR guidance to reporters: Kamala Harris is NOT first POC VP. Charles Curtis, Hoover's VP, was

[soothsayer]

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Yamiche Alcindor
@Yamiche
Important guidance here.

Joe Shapiro
@NPRJoeShapiro
Per NPR guidance to reporters: Kamala Harris is NOT first POC VP. Charles Curtis, Hoover’s VP, was member of Kaw Nation

[Blue_playwright]

1. How did they not teach us this in school?

[soothsayer]

4. They've been holding out!

[DrToast]

2. Interesting!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. A big fat K&R!

[Iliyah]

5. Vice President Kamala Harris is the first woman and a woman of color . ..

period.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. ...

Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Kaw Nation born in the Kansas Territory, Curtis was the first person with significant Native American ancestry and the first person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the highest offices in the federal executive branch. He is the highest-ranking enrolled Native American ever to serve in the federal government. He is the most recent Executive Branch officer to have been born in a territory rather than a state.

So, we just put "female" in front of POC and it's all good.

[ExciteBike66]

7. Bet the trumpers of the day called him an illegal immigrant...

[MagickMuffin]

8. That's interesting history right there, however, Kamala IS the 1st POC that's a Woman

So there is that.

And she is the FIRST to hold that job. So there NPR

[Maeve]

9. Ah, but still the first WOMAN of color!

And not sure how many Americans knew that about Curtis at the time...

[Dagstead Bumwood]

10. Interesting, and like many no doubt

I was not aware of that fact. It's alarming the things they don't teach you in school, and the lying bullshit they do teach you.

[LizBeth]

11. First woman to break the ceiling. HRC cracked it, Harris broke it.

[Hortensis]

12. Just looked, Curtis was 1/4 Kaw, parents with "mainstream" names.

Senator Harris is unquestionably our first "POC" VP, as well as first female VP.

At 1/4, Curtis has a lot more Kaw (blood if not culture) than Harris has white. She apparently has a white Jamaican planter who died in 1843 (and seemingly no one cares to brag about) in her black Jamaican father's line.

It's 12:30 a.m. in the Hindu village in Tamil Nadu, India that Senator Harris's Tamil grandfather was originally from, but I bet they're celebrating there also. They contributed their prayers to this victory.

[Spazito]

13. She is the first WOMAN of COLOR to be VP....

I get why the 'guidance' from NPR to it's own reporters, the answer is simple and that is to acknowledge the complete historical first and not just half of it.

[Turin_C3PO]

14. Wow, how did I not know this?!

Well, Harris is definitely the first female POC and that’s huge

[LiberalFighter]

15. I say that NPR and Joe Shapiro should shove it up their asses.

[soothsayer]

16. Ha! It annoyed me too