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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Steve King (R) Iowa asks Kamala Harris if she was descended from slave owners
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-elects background on Twitter.
Im 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
(24,468 posts)C'mon, Kamala, humor this racist loser.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,422 posts)sheshe2
(83,754 posts)I have a question for you:
Are you descended from assholes or are you just a naturalized asshole.
Takket
(21,565 posts)like....... white people invented them in a lab to be slaves or something???????
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)crickets
(25,976 posts)onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)As in enslaved women were routinely raped by the men who legally owned them.
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...about pretty much any topic one might care to pick.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)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
(16,844 posts)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
(19,348 posts)ancestors were ruled by the Gentile Colonial Whites of Europe (your people Steve).
a kennedy
(29,658 posts)bdamomma
(63,849 posts)fuck off.
tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)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
(9,313 posts)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
(28,190 posts)TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)They finally wised up, slightly.
marmar
(77,080 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)arrived in Jamaica. I'll just wait here........
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)I see he is still an idiot.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,605 posts)Retrograde
(10,136 posts)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.