Trump has GOT to change the way he speaks if he want to win. [from this afternoon]

[just_abc]

 

20 hours ago, NConly said:

She was sworn in to Congress as Indian- American so at that time she did not use the African-American card now she does

hi..  I hope it is ok to ask.. but I was quite puzzled about this statement?

I looked up news articles online.. for around the time she was running for senator or had just been elected /sworn in..  and there were many american news media articles back then which refered to her as 'black' or 'african american'... or they mentioned about her having both Indian and Jamaican descent /etc..  or both..

For example:

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/meet-kamala-harris-second-black-woman-elected-u-s-senate-n680726

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-ag-kamala-harris-wins-battle-to-replace-retiring-senator-boxer/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/magazine/kamala-harris-a-top-cop-in-the-era-of-black-lives-matter.html

 

These are just a few of the many articles I found from back then mentioning her ethnicities /heritage.

So it was well known that she had both ethnicities?  

 

 

21 minutes ago, TheBlade said:

Same here.. she's not black.. she's Indian. But.. its Trump and believer or not people will focus and what they personally don't like not what that man gets done.  But a woman that says shes black one moment yet I watch her say she was Indian :)

She is both.   

When someone has parents who are of different ethnicities.. they inherit both ethnicities /heritages.  It isn't an either this ethnicity or that ethnicity .. it is both........ 

(except perhaps in countries where a child of mixed ethnicity is legally considered as being of the ethnicity /citizenship of one particular parent only.. often the father.    However as far as I know the Usa grants equal rights to both parents for these matters.)

 

Just some thoughts thats all.  (As someone from a country which has many different ethnicities and cultures)

Truly no offence intended to anyone.

Thank you. 

 

[Still Alive]

1 hour ago, Neighbor said:

Well "Little Rocket Man"  is still in power, has doubled down on his own bets, lobs missiles, provides physical manpower for Russia at Ukraine and makes arms ammunition for them. Plus provides the conscript manpower for Poland's shipyards, and other European shipyards to some extent.

All Trump managed to do is convince the troika of China, Russia, and North Korea, to work closer together as formal allies and also  gain stronger support from Hungary, and possibly even India and Pakistan. They have formal diplomatic relations with 164 countries. The USA not being one of them. 

Well, you can't do much when you are no longer president.

[other one]

20 hours ago, Jayne said:

I understand.  Everyone knows that.  HE knows that.  Why the pretense that he doesn't?

I listened to that video several times and one should take a lot into consideration.

1. they invited him under false pretences, since he was told that Kamala would be there.

2. He flew there and has other things planned when that is over but they were late starting because of not being set up properly.

3.He could not hear the other two people because of the audio equipment

4 The ABC person started of with a very ugly accusing tone in her voice and added several insults before she got to her question.

5.  When it came time for him to discuss her blackness, he simply referred  to her past as being an Indian (when  she was in the senate)  He was saying he didn't know she was black until much later.

BTW, she is not an African-American, she is Indian-Jamaican.   I don't know if her mother and father were mixed or all black.

So I really don't know how black she really is, and neither did President Trump.

BTW that whole interview was a setup, and the reactions of the audience there from what I could hear was not against what most things the president was saying.

When you are falsely invited to a skunk interview, you have to stand up for yourself or you may never get all the stink off.

[other one]

20 hours ago, Jayne said:

I understand.  Everyone knows that.  HE knows that.  Why the pretense that he doesn't?

I listened to that video several times and one should take a lot into consideration.

1. they invited him under false pretences, since he was told that Kamala would be there.

2. He flew there and has other things planned when that is over but they were late starting because of not being set up properly.

3.He could not hear the other two people because of the audio equipment

4 The ABC person started of with a very ugly accusing tone in her voice and added several insults before she got to her question.

5.  When it came time for him to discuss her blackness, he simply referred  to her past as being an Indian (when  she was in the senate)  He was saying he didn't know she was black until much later.

BTW, she is not an African-American, she is Indian-Jamaican.   I don't know if her mother and father were mixed or all black.  But she is dark skinned, but no darker than my wife, who is part Chickasaw Indian.  Unless she wears a really good wig, I would not consider her that much black.

So I really don't know how black she really is, and neither did President Trump.

BTW that whole interview was a setup, and the reactions of the audience there from what I could hear was not against what most things the president was saying.

When you are falsely invited to a skunk interview, you have to stand up for yourself or you may never get all the stink off.

[Vine Abider]

4 minutes ago, other one said:

So I really don't know how black she really is, and neither did President Trump.

This is probably un-Pc or un-woke or sumptin, but how much black does a person need to have in them before identifying as black?

For instance, I have 1/16 Cherokee in me - can I ID as native American?

[Still Alive]

20 hours ago, Jayne said:

I understand.  Everyone knows that.  HE knows that.  Why the pretense that he doesn't?

He's making a joke of her playing her own race card. 

[WilliamL]

1 minute ago, Vine Abider said:

This is probably un-Pc or un-woke or sumptin, but how much black does a person need to have in them before identifying as black?

For instance, I have 1/16 Cherokee in me - can I ID as native American?

Absolutely!!! That is much more than Senator Elizabeth Warren's percentage.

[Jayne]

1 hour ago, TheBlade said:

Same here.. she's not black.. she's Indian. But.. its Trump and believer or not people will focus and what they personally don't like not what that man gets done.  But a woman that says shes black one moment yet I watch her say she was Indian :)

She is both.  Her mother is from the southern part of India in Asia and her father was born Jamaican which is of Afro-Carribean descent.

[Vine Abider]

11 minutes ago, WilliamL said:

Absolutely!!! That is much more than Senator Elizabeth Warren's percentage.

Yeah, I just always wondered how that worked.  Because I see a lot of really light-skinned black people who appear to be maybe only 1/4 black or less, but they seem to fully ID as black.

Any way, I better cool it as I'm sure the PC cops will come a knockin real soon!

(BTW - I had a very close black friend as a teenager, who's skin was quite dark.  However, he really IDed as being culturally white, hated "soul music" etc.  Not sure why I mention this, but it seemed to have some relevance . . .)

[Still Alive]

14 minutes ago, Vine Abider said:

This is probably un-Pc or un-woke or sumptin, but how much black does a person need to have in them before identifying as black?

For instance, I have 1/16 Cherokee in me - can I ID as native American?

For obama it was half.