Rep. Steve King (R) Iowa asks Kamala Harris if she was descended from slave owners

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An Iowa congressman known for making racist comments has asked Kamala Harris if she was descended from slave owners.

Republican Steve King, who has a long history of making offensive remarks about immigrants, questioned the vice-president-elect’s background on Twitter.

“I’m reading that @KamalaHarris made history as first woman, first black woman, first Asian woman, etc = a boatload of intersectionality points. But Kamala, are you descended from slaves or slave owners?” Tweeted Mr King on Sunday.

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Ms Harris is the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants and will make history as the first woman and woman of clolour as vice president.

Mr King lost his bid for re-election after 18 years in Congress earlier this year in a surprise primary upset, and will be replaced on 1 January by fellow Republican Randy Feenstra.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iowa-congressman-notorious-racist-remarks-220126920.html

Good riddance King

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. So was Kamala's forebeaars, Republican slave owners or Democrats?

C'mon, Kamala, humor this racist loser.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. he clearly is descended from a rectum.

[NoMoreRepugs]

18. Hilarious.

[sheshe2]

3. Hey Steve,

I have a question for you:

Are you descended from assholes or are you just a naturalized asshole.

[Takket]

4. does he think all black people decended from slaves????

like....... white people invented them in a lab to be slaves or something???????

[BeyondGeography]

5. What the actual fuck?

[crickets]

15. I am your echo... your very LOUD echo. nt

[onecaliberal]

6. :

[gollygee]

7. Is he completely clueless about the relationship between slavery and rape?

As in enslaved women were routinely raped by the men who legally owned them.

[3catwoman3]

25. I think he is completely clueless...

...about pretty much any topic one might care to pick.

[Tanuki]

8. He should read Caroline Randall Williams' excellent essay

if he can read.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/confederate-monuments-racism.html

"NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old South.

If there are those who want to remember the legacy of the Confederacy, if they want monuments, well, then, my body is a monument. My skin is a monument.
....
I am a black, Southern woman, and of my immediate white male ancestors, all of them were rapists. My very existence is a relic of slavery and Jim Crow.

According to the rule of hypodescent (the social and legal practice of assigning a genetically mixed-race person to the race with less social power) I am the daughter of two black people, the granddaughter of four black people, the great-granddaughter of eight black people. Go back one more generation and it gets less straightforward, and more sinister. As far as family history has always told, and as modern DNA testing has allowed me to confirm, I am the descendant of black women who were domestic servants and white men who raped their help."...(more)

[LuvNewcastle]

9. Steve King is:

A cross between a hyena and a jackal, born in a graveyard at midnight, and he was suckled by a sow and educated by a fool.

[Dawson Leery]

10. What incontrovterible is that Kamala Harris'

ancestors were ruled by the Gentile Colonial Whites of Europe (your people Steve).

[a kennedy]

11. Well, just FAWK him.......eom

[bdamomma]

12. he can

fuck off.

[pat_k]

13. Perhaps a little about the complexity of Jamaican history is in order.

Actually, the complexity is undoubtedly beyond this idiots ability to comprehend.

A short history of Jamaica here.

[tulipsandroses]

23. I don't think he understands the complexities of history period

Kamala's father wrote an article where he talked about his grandmothers. He said one of them was the descendant of a slave owner. He did not add context to that statement. IMO, he did not need to. We can surmise that his grandmother's existence did not occur out of free will.

[pat_k]

27. Thanks for the reference to the article.

The point King was trying to make completely escapes me. If a person's ancestry includes enslaved black people, their ancestry is almost guaranteed to include one or more slave owners. Even an idiot like King ought know that, as a class, slave owners believed they had a right to rape the women they enslaved.

[TheBlackAdder]

14. IOWA - You do know that Steve King represents your state and its people, right?

[TwilightZone]

20. Not anymore.

They finally wised up, slightly.

[marmar]

16. He is what he is.

[spanone]

17. king is lower than snake shit.

[muntrv]

19. Steve, were you descended from a pile of manure?

[Baked Potato]

21. What a complete BORE this "man" must be.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

22. Quick! Someone ask this waste of baboon jizz how black people

arrived in Jamaica. I'll just wait here........

[3catwoman3]

24. I had rather forgotten about this miscreant.

I see he is still an idiot.

[MustLoveBeagles]

26. ...

[Retrograde]

28. Steve King, are you descended from slaveholders?

And why would it matter if you or Senator Harris were? Myself, I can't trace my family back past 3 generations, but one of my family names is suspiciously similar to that of an East European nobleman famous for owning 10,000 serfs: wouldn't be surprised if there was some connection.

We all have noble people and villains in our family trees, if we knew the true story.

[onenote]

29. He's just jealous that he can't be a slaveholder himself.

[JI7]

30. Many descendents of enslaved people have the blood of Slave Holders