Steve King's Ignorant Tweet reminded me of this: How The British Reinvented Slavery

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9. My guess he was being an ass and probably just parroting stupid propaganda

he saw on Facebook or other stupid RW internet sites. He doesn't say it in his tweet But there is a lot of nonsense out there regarding her heritage. She's not really black. Funny how racists decide when they want you to be black and when they don't want you to be black to suit their narrative. Other propaganda claiming that Kamala said her family left India to own black slaves in Jamaica or some crap like that. Which of course is false.

Facts be damned for these folks. They live in a fact free bubble where nuance, history do not exist. Indians that arrived in Jamaica did not own slaves. Which is what the article and the video I posted is about. They are obsessed with whether or not she is the descendant of slaves. Ignorant of the fact that her Indian ancestors could very well have been indentured servants - which at the time was another form of slavery for the British.

My point being, if you are so obsessed about whether or not she is a descendant of slaves. It could have been on either side of her family. But to understand that, one would have to be interested in facts and details. Things often, overlooked by these folks. If it doesn't fit on a meme, a tweet, face book post. Its not real.

I'm willing to bet, he was alluding to some of this idiocy.