Could she become the first woman to be elected President, yes, that is historic. I don't think race matters as much as it does to smoe of the racists in this country, including some in the media who feel the need to find divisive things to report.

The media just doing its job: creating controversial content.

Hey, maybe that's a new nickname for the media: C cubed.

She's an Asian-African American.

Jamaican and the black folks in Jamaica are of African descent.

What's to question? Make it African/Asian American if you want.

You probably wouldn't call an immigrant from Morocco or Egypt "African American", even though it was literally true. (For that matter, some people do not call recent immigrants from any part of Africa "African American".)

Even more counter-intuitively, many South Asian immigrants blended into the African American community over the course of three centuries, particularly Tamils, Bengalis, and Odishans.

Who is and isn't African American, and who gets to decide that, is a fraught and complicated question. But there's nothing about Harris's background that precludes that identification. It will be interesting to see the response of the broader African American community on this question.

Af·ri·can A·mer·i·can
[ˈafrəkən əˈmerəkən]

NOUN
African Americans (plural noun)
a black American.

ADJECTIVE
African-American (adjective)
relating to black Americans.

That one’s on you.

I get the distinction, but it's one without a difference.

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...then what is she?

...but on her website, she identifies herself as African-American:

https://kamalaharris.org/meet-kamala/

Why do you have a problem with that?

then that's what she is.

How is that such a stretch, especially when she's used the term. She's also a member of Congressional Black Caucus & Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.

Yep.

...her father attributes his 'Jamaicanness' to her identity.

Donald Harris reflects in this essay on the ‘’ of his daughter Kamala.

"As a child growing up in Jamaica, I often heard it said, by my parents and family friends: “memba whe yu cum fram”. To this day, I continue to retain the deep social awareness and strong sense of identity which that grassroots Jamaican philosophy fed in me. As a father, I naturally sought to develop the same sensibility in my two daughters. Born and bred in America, Kamala was the first in line to have it planted."

read more: https://www.jamaicaglobalonline.com/kamala-harris-jamaican-heritage/

Her dad is a black man from Jamaica.

That makes her as African American as Barack Obama.

Why are you finding this concept so difficult to understand?

Here, let Peter Tosh explain it to you:

but if her father is Jamaican, it is possible that he could be a descendant of the Garifuna people. The Garifuna are of mixed ancestry, primarily of West African, Central African, Island Carib, European...the Garifuna were exiled by the British colonials after a series of slave revolts. Their history is fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garifuna

I'm just throwing this out there...if Senator Harris' father is Jamaican, I think it is fair that she might refer to herself as being of African American descent.

She was born in the United States, so yes, she IS an African American.

I frankly could not create less about the color of her skin. She rocks!

SMDH.

I also was born in Oakland almost exactly 2 years later, within, say, a day or two ... I'd bet we're born at the same hospital, in fact ... think there was only 2 doing births at that time, so ... good chance.

Got that Agent Mike?

Yeah, you already know exactly who I am, so ...

Maybe you should spend a little time learning about the African diaspora instead of questioning Harris' self-identification.

There are many African Americans in the Caribbean - where they were originally brought and exploited as slaves every bit as much as in the southern USA. Obama's mother was white. Kamala's mother was Tamil, which also makes her a POC.

Ethnic heritage is complex.

which is more encompassing and, in the US, is used synonymously with african american.

what they are finding"....expect that announcement at Donald Trump's next rally.

exactly like my best friend... whose father was a dead ringer for Martin Luther King Jr.

I have to admit that I can be color bind because there are are humans made up of so many shades of color... but to my shame, I have found that I am not speech deaf. I often unfairly characterize people based on their speech, accents, and even grammar. Trying to work on this.

Learn a bit about the Color Rainbow of African-Americans....

Human Skin Color Variation - National Museum of History

Senator Harris, lawyer and former prosecutor, doesn’t have a clue who she is.

Of COURSE Ksmala is!! As well as Indian-American. P/S: Jamaica as well as Haiti and many other Caribbean Islands/Territories/States are full of the descendants of African-Slaves.

So the fact this question has to be asked is frankly an insult. #FYI

She isn’t “black” enough for some?

I have to wonder if those who seem bothered by this are African American, or white

even though he was raised by his white grandparents.

She is as black as Obama is.

They're more comfortable putting people into simple categories rather than trying to deal with real-life complexities. Harris is dark-skinned so she goes into the "African-American" box because that's the MSM box that requires the least use of brain cells for them (and it fits into a simple black/white, either/or version of the world). But Harris is from the Bay Area, which has a large Asian population, and where people tend to mingle and intermarry more than in, say, the Midwest. And there's no simple box for people with such mixed ancestry.

End of. OP needs to think harder before posting.

All technically Africans! Why not get rid of all references to race altogether? Since a person of any race can accept blood from any other race, I would like to abolish all references to race.

Many of us deny that reality and prefer a fairly tale involving "pure bloodlines".

why is this being asked, discussed, pondered, questioned?

Kamala Harris is a candidate. Period. (and a good/great one at that)

I do not understand why we have to slice and dice everything