The barbershop was buzzing with controversy.
A viral video clip shows multiple black men in a Dauphin County, Pennsylvania barbershop openly questioning whether Vice President Kamala Harris is "black."
Harris, 59, who is biracial — the daughter of a Jamaican-American father and an Indian-American mother, has been subject to attacks about her race. Last week Trump questioned her racial identity and suggested that she only recently started identifying as black.
Men in a Pennsylvania barbershop questioned Kamala Harris' blackness to local reporter.CNN
The vice president is biracial — both black and Indian.Richard Burkhart/USA Today Network / USA TODAY NETWORK
The clip, from a local CBS affiliate, starts with reporter Joel Smith asking, "Is Kamala gonna make you a little more likely or less likely to vote Democrat?"
One of the men promptly spoke up and quizzed his peers, asking them, "Is Kamala black, yes or no?"
A man next to him, bluntly replied that he'd "let her speak on that, but to me, no."
"I share that same view," another man in the group said.
"I heard she wasn't," a fourth man explained. "I heard she's half black and half Asian."
CNN host Michael Smerconish aired a clip of that exchange on his Saturday program and told viewers that he previously played the segment on his radio program and black callers described the men as "low information voters."
Trump stirred up controversy over Harris' racial identity last Wednesday during an appearance at a National Association of Black Journ*lists event in Chicago, during which he questioned her race.
"I've known her a long time indirectly — not directly very much — and she was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black — until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black," Trump said at the time.
"Now she wants to be known as black so I don't know is she Indian or is she black," he went on. "But you know what, I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't."
Donald Trump doubled down after stoking controversy for questioning Kamala Harris' race.Joshua L. Jones / USA TODAY NETWORK
That comment quickly ignited a firestorm. At the time, Trump had been asked about conservatives who labeled Harris a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hire. That's a reference to President Biden pledging in 2020 that he'd tap a woman as his veep. Trump largely demurred on the DEI question.
"It was the same old show," Harris responded later in the day during remarks at a prominent black sorority event in Houston. "The divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me just say, the American people deserve better."
Before Biden's abrupt exit from the 2024 contest on July 21, polls had suggested that Trump was making modest gains among black voters.
Data from Pew Research, for example, found that 77% of black voters leaned toward Biden, while 18% favored Trump. The trend was particularly pronounced among black men.
For context, 92% of black voters supported Trump in 2020, while Trump got just 8%, per Pew Research. Other exit polling data pegged Biden beating Trump with black voters in 2020 by 87% to 12%.
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have been taunting each other over a presidential debate.AFP via Getty Images
Now Harris has been catapulted to the top of the Democratic ticket. Last Friday, she officially locked the delegates needed to be declared the party's standard bearer.
She is expected to name her pick for vice president this week.
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Haven't seen that phrase in a long time. Gotta keep them nigras from wandering off the plantation
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They are getting rowdy
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Uppity even
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at lunchtime no less
!slotsmb1111
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Must be coming up on lunchtime
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The Dem machines that control cities regularly trot out that verbiage whenever someone attempts to implement ranked-choice voting or something similarly complex. I think there's a legitimate concern that if given the opportunity to be more selective, BIPOC voters would push for a more moderate candidate with tough-on-crime attitudes rather than the preordained Soros progressive that would be the only person with a (D) next to their name on the ballot in the current system.
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The last two presidential campaigns it was mainly used by Bernie Sanders supporters to describe blacks that vote against their own interests. Specifically by not voting for Bernie Sanders.
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That's what happened in NYC. They implemented ranked choice voting and all the blacks picked Eric Adams as #1 choice (moderate tough on crime) and the soros plant (extremely progressive) as #2 who is also black. Kind of odd like blacks just vote for the black candidates regardless their politics![:marseyhmm: :marseyhmm:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyhmm.webp)
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Sometimes I don't know if it's Trump's idiot savant genius or just dumb luck, this is one of them. He's going on about how she just switched from Indian to Black, which is BS, but serves the purpose of getting it discussed for days on end how she is biracial, like famous rapper Drake, and not ADOS like famous rapper Kendrick Lamar.
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It doesnt matter if shes a brat(wurst) indian or black we all lnow shes white on the inside![:marseycoconuthalf: :marseycoconuthalf:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseycoconuthalf.webp)
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American Descendants Of Seethery
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I thought they use the term FBA?
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Bruh, she identified as Indian when being Indian was more convenient and identified as black for the first time the moment being black became convenient i.e. getting votes.
Now that's just my understanding and I don't know if it's really how she presented herself, but being biracial ( which she is ) and only representing yourself as one of the two groups as per convenience are two very different things.
Someone remembering they are black for the votes is like a rich white boy pretending to be from the hood to build a rap career.
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Tbh I do the same and any mutt that says otherwise is lying
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I thought she went to one of the Black colleges
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Old oaktown kam getting dissed by her constituency on CNN?
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typical, the cryptofascist CNN is openly streaming disinfomation by black white supremacist barbers who are known russian bots!
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Don't they teach the one drop rule in school anymore?
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Many African Americans don't consider Jamaicans to be "really black", so I'm not shocked some don't consider a half-Jamaican, half-Indian one.
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Why?![:marseyshook: :marseyshook:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyshook.webp)
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Caribbean black have more African than Black American in them. They speak differently, tend to be less temperamental, and tend have a fricking different outlook on life.
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"Black" is an american construction. Jamaica was a British colony, and the slaves there were unceremoniously freed by the UK over a decade before the American civil war. Plus they've done alright for themselves in the time since.
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It's part of the wider African-American vs. African arguments.
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More emotional stability, less neighbor moments.
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Her father left her to be raised by a single mother. That makes her Black in my eyes.
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My wife was raised by a single mother, which makes her black in my eyes. She also tends to burn the lasagna, which makes her black in her eyes.
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Ok garfield
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Weird how this happened to both black presidents
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White democrats
love their liteskin
house negros
to push their agenda
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...in fricking Canada.
We treat our blacks with dignity, she had no struggles.
Now if she was heyahoya...
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She's not black and she's not asian. Not because you can't be both. Because she's insincere when acting like she has either identity.
Also because "AIIIPACAA" or whatever the frick it's called is an incredibly stupid and demeaning way to fit half the world's population into one category. So the lowest common denominator college graduate can understand.
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Sounds asian to me tho![:marseyjewoftheorient: :marseyjewoftheorient:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyjewoftheorient.webp)
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This is national news apparently
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It could take just a couple % of the black vote peeling off for it to be a big problem for her. Daddy is a genius as always.
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Do Americans really?
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Yeah
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Just try not to frick up so bad the Chinese start to look like the good government.
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The barber is phenotypically more Wh*te than Black, so I dunno what they're on about......
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10% black and 90% white is still black
<51% black and 50% another minority ethnicity is that minority ethnicity
That's just the way it be. The one drop rule has a historical relevance to black Americans due to race mixing with slaves, but other than that people are still identified by their most exotic racial makeup.
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So Tiger Woods isn't Black?
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Woods is an athlete and therefore black
If Tiger Woods was a professor he'd be Asian
I don't make the rules
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Tiger Woods is the whitest man on earth.
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I don't know about that but I will keep it simple.
Dave Chapelle is on the fence of black.
Chris Rock is black but he outgrew it.
Kanye is definitely black.
Bill Clinton is black.
Obama is black adjacent.
Serena Williams is definitely black.
Beyonce is wealthy without color.
I hope this helps.
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Exactly, takes one to know one![:marseyyes: :marseyyes:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyyes.webp)
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Being lightskinned makes you Black. Being brown makes you Indian
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ENSLAVE THEM.
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CNN really can't help themselves.
Translation: one black lib said they were fricking dumb while hundreds of sneeding white libs called them a fricking bunch of n-- low information voters.
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So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that's wrong.
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this isn't a suggestion. It's exactly what she's been doing.
She's no better than Pocahontas on this point. I'll identify as whatever as long as stupid people will vote for me because of it.
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What % black is she actually? More or less than 25%?
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