I keep getting messages from people saying it's great that Biden picked someone half-Asian.??? They

[BamaRefugee]

say CNN has described Harris like that several times in the last 20 minutes?
HUH?
I thought she had Black and Indian roots via Jamaica.
Am I wrong?
Doesn't matter to me really, just wondering.
BIDEN/HARRIS 2020 and Beyond!

[whistler162]

1. Asian sub-continent Indian

https://veryceleb.com/kamala-harris-parents/ and worse she is also part <SHUDDER> Canadian <SHUDDER>

[OneBlueDotBama]

8. Kamala is not Canadian...

Her mother did take a teaching position at McGill University in Montreal, Kamala & her sister Maya attended Westmount High in Montreal. After graduating, Kamala attended Howard in DC.

Kamala would have had a front seat to the Parti Quebois (separatists) fight with the federalists. Graduating in 1981 she would have witnessed the bombings by the FLQ, especially in Westmount, plus the referendum for Quebec to leave Canada.

In my opinion, Kamala's experience in Montreal, will serve her well in the coming Biden admin.

[whistler162]

9. Phewwwwww.....

[pwb]

2. People are saying is a trump move?

Her race matters not.

[wcmagumba]

3. Her mother had (she is deceased) Indian-American-Canadian roots

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Her mother was from India.

[wcmagumba]

13. Sorry if I was incorrect in my wording...

I used this bio article about her parents...

https://veryceleb.com/kamala-harris-parents/

"What Nationality Are Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan Harris?

Donald Harris is a Jamaican and Shymala Gopalan Harris was an Indian-American-Canadian."

[Hekate]

4. Her mother is from India

[wryter2000]

5. Indian

They’re correct, and it’s a good thing

[Iliyah]

6. India . .

located in Asia.

[LeftInTX]

7. Her father was from Jamaica and her mother was from Chennai (India)

[soothsayer]

10. She's the Tiger of politics!

[BamaRefugee]

12. OK by me, but she should stay away from Waffle House til November!

[Blue_true]

14. Her Mom was a Medical Researcher.

Her Mom came from India at 19 to pursue studies in the USA. Her Mom got a PhD, and citizenship here. Unfortunately, her Mom was forced to work in Canada due to hiring tendencies here.

[abqtommy]

15. People who find this to be something negative are probably racist...

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[qwlauren35]

16. SERIOUSLY??????

I would bet that there are people in the Indian community who are very excited about this. I'm sure there are people in the black community who are excited about this.

Now if there's someone who actually has a problem with Harris' Indian roots... they can go to hell.

[yardwork]

17. Not if they're celebrating it.

Is this the first time a person of Asian descent has been on the presidential ticket? If so, it's another first today and another reason to celebrate.

[xmas74]

18. Mindy Kaling has mentioned how important it is

Because she's a role model for Indian girls who never thought they'd see someone like them in a prominent position.

[Klaralven]

19. The progressive Indian grandfather who inspired Kamala Harris

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-25/how-kamala-harris-indian-family-shaped-her-political-career

NEW DELHI — For a girl from Berkeley, about 5 years old, the setting must have been intoxicating: a bungalow surrounded by greenery in a newly independent African capital, where children ran outside to wave at the president’s car as he drove past.

This was where a young Kamala Harris spent time in the late 1960s, at a house in Lusaka, Zambia, that belonged to her maternal grandfather, an Indian civil servant on assignment in an era of postcolonial ferment.

The Indian government had dispatched P.V. Gopalan to help Zambia manage an influx of refugees from Rhodesia — the former name of Zimbabwe — which had just declared independence from Britain. It was the capstone of a four-decade career that began when Gopalan joined government service fresh out of college in the 1930s, in the final years of British rule in India.

It was also the start of a relationship that would define Harris’ life. Until his death in 1998, Gopalan remained from thousands of miles away a pen pal and guiding influence — accomplished, civic-minded, doting, playful — who helped kindle Harris’ interest in public service.