From the Daily Caller –
KAMALA HARRIS’S DAD SAYS HER GRANDMOTHERS ARE ‘TURNING IN THEIR GRAVE’ OVER JAMAICAN HERITAGE POT JOKE
Evie Fordham
Democratic 2020 presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris’s father called her out Friday for promoting a “fraudulent stereotype” when she joked about her Jamaican heritage influencing her decision to smoke pot in college during a Feb. 11 interview.
Donald Harris, the California Democratic senator’s father, was not happy about how she portrayed her Jamaican roots and issued the following statement:
My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), 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. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.
Harris is a retired Stanford University professor who has been involved in high-level economic policy for the Jamaican government, reported The Daily Mail…
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