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Senator Kamala Harris

 
Runs 2017-06-13 17:55:53 

Kamala Harris has been spot on with her questions every time; pointed, in-depth and revealing. cool


Look at that mean black woman picking on that old, southern gentleman. lol

 
Khaga 2017-06-13 18:24:18 

She has been cut off every time.. evil evil

 
black 2017-06-13 18:37:20 

In reply to Khaga

That's a sign that she is doing something right.

 
Runs 2017-06-13 18:41:49 

In reply to black

wink

 
Chrissy 2017-06-13 18:53:10 

In reply to Runs

She's top class.

 
Khaga 2017-06-13 19:12:59 

The Senator frombNM Martin Heinrich is a non-nonsense guy as well..

He pounded Coates and Rogers last week and continued to hammer Sessions today

 
openning 2017-06-13 20:18:37 

In reply to Runs
It is the second time, I've seen her, very competent

 
Chrissy 2017-06-13 20:57:06 

In reply to openning

Her dad is Jamaican - the great Donn Harris and her mum (deceased) was from India - she literally grew up on Stanford's Palo Alto campus.

 
birdseye 2017-06-13 21:12:40 

In reply to Runs

Look at that mean black woman picking on that old, southern gentleman.

No brother – she is the daughter of an Indian immigrant and a Jamaican immigrant – the Jamaican an economics professor at Stanford, the mother a research scientist ---- that is one hell of a combination the dealing with – the pedigree don’t come any better
Harris was elected California's Attorney General in 2010, and re-elected in 2014.[2][3] She was the first woman,[4] the first Jamaican American, the first Asian American, the first Indian American, and the first African American attorney general in California.


here

 
POINT 2017-06-13 21:37:16 

In reply to Runs

I cited that since the first hearing .
She was the Chief State Prosecutor in
California ; and this is her first year as one of the 2 Senators from California .

My only regret is that being the Junior Senator , her turn to ask Questions is after those who have seniority over her .

Remarkably , when she gets her turn to ask Questions ; she always ask
Questions that have not been asked ,
and they are always straight to the
point , no pun intended .

The Chairman always has to come to the Rescue of those she is questioning .



lol lol lol lol lol lol lol razz razz razz razz razz lol lol lol lol lol

 
Khaga 2017-06-13 21:40:50 

Her parents divorced when she was 7 and her mother raised her and her sister..
Chrissy,don't overplay the role of her father..Kamala was close to her maternal grandfather, who was a diplomat..

 
birdseye 2017-06-13 21:50:54 

In reply to Khaga

Chrissy,don't overplay the role of her father..
In dealing with thoroughbred – the pedigree of the sire is usually sited as the determinative --- not being in proximity does not mitigate heritable quotient wink wink wink

 
Khaga 2017-06-13 21:57:43 

In reply to birdseye

Kamala's mother Shyamala ,was a breast cancer researcher ,raised both her daughters and had hugeeee influence..
No amount of father's credentials will dispute those facts..

 
gvenkat 2017-06-13 22:05:30 

In reply to Khaga

Just like these guys will claim obama s Kenyan roots. lol

 
ProWI 2017-06-13 22:12:45 

Damn, she was living in Montreal for a while and I missed her. lol

 
bravos 2017-06-13 22:17:31 

Oh so she ah dougla den! Go Kamala,her first name always stood out for me but thought it was just an adventure by her US parents,but it's authentic stuff ... cool

 
black 2017-06-13 22:22:57 

In America she is Black. lol

 
Khaga 2017-06-13 22:23:19 

In reply to gvenkat

How irresponsible and disrespectful

 
birdseye 2017-06-13 22:35:47 

In reply to Khaga

No amount of father's credentials will dispute those facts..
You are trying to convert something logical into something substantive – generalizing is totally different from formalizing – genetics is a science

 
Khaga 2017-06-13 22:41:50 

In reply to birdseye

Mother took a lot if responsibility in raising Kamala

 
gvenkat 2017-06-13 22:52:35 

In reply to Khaga

Her mom was a tamilian from Chennai to boot. lol lol lol

 
Oilah 2017-06-13 22:54:51 

Sharp questions...some of de Old Boys have a problem with a woman behaving dat way...dis is twice McCain jump in tuh humbug de Ms Harris

 
Khaga 2017-06-13 22:55:27 

In reply to gvenkat

Grandfather IFS

 
gvenkat 2017-06-13 22:57:52 

In reply to Khaga

Tambram too.. razz

 
birdseye 2017-06-13 23:00:52 

In reply to Khaga

Mother took a lot if responsibility in raising Kamala
I in no way trying to diminish that

 
gvenkat 2017-06-13 23:00:57 

In reply to Khaga

My niece, the US Senator


'Whatever Kamala is today, it is because of my sister.'
'My sister inculcated South Indian culture and values in her,' Dr Sarala Gopalan, US Senator-elect Kamala Harris' aunt, tells Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier in Chennai.


Link Text

 
Khaga 2017-06-13 23:23:24 

In reply to gvenkat

I watched all the hearings if the Senate Intelligence Committee in the last week.

As good as Senator Harris was ,given her legal background, she wasn't giving e oigh chance for the witnesses to answer or she was wrapped in her own questions.
Angus King and Martin Heinrich were stronger in pinning the witnesses down.

Our black men here conveniently drop over over Senator Harris because if her Jamaican lineage..

 
Khaga 2017-06-13 23:47:46 

In reply to gvenkat

A slap in the face for bravoskunt

It is funny that some newspapers like The Los Angeles Times described her as the first black woman to enter the Senate while some describe her as an Indian American. Let them write whatever they want. Whether black or brown, she is a caring, soft-hearted person who can't see anyone suffer."

 
black 2017-06-14 00:21:38 

In reply to Khaga

I don't think she was the first, Carol Moseley Braun also served in the Senate.

 
Khaga 2017-06-14 00:23:17 

In reply to black

First what?

 
Khaga 2017-06-14 00:24:33 

In reply to gvenkat

We have the idli,sambar version..time for the yam and jerk version.. lol

 
black 2017-06-14 00:26:30 

In reply to Khaga

It is funny that some newspapers like The Los Angeles Times described her as the first black woman to enter the Senate while some describe her as an Indian American. Let them write whatever they want. Whether black or brown, she is a caring, soft-hearted person who can't see anyone suffer."


I am responding to this quote, not sure if it came from you.

 
Khaga 2017-06-14 00:30:19 

In reply to black

I made no claim..it was a reference..she is certainly the first Senator of Indian or origin..definitely first woman Senator of Indian origin..

 
black 2017-06-14 00:44:32 

In reply to Khaga

The quote also made reference to the first black woman.

 
Runs 2017-06-14 10:31:29 

In reply to Khaga

I agree but to be fair Sessions tried to obfuscate and run out the clock. The media has not acknowledged her as well I wonder why? hmm

 
googley 2017-06-14 10:43:30 

In reply to Runs

weak men cannot handle a strong woman! they use bullying tactics to railroad her

 
Runs 2017-06-14 10:55:56 

In reply to googley

True, I also noticed the media heaped praise on the male senators

 
ProWI 2017-06-14 11:02:08 

In reply to Khaga

She considers herself to be a black woman.

 
Runs 2017-06-14 13:51:15 

Mika Brzezinski calls it "pathetic" that "a lot of rude, white, older men" are so afraid of letting Sen. Kamala Harris speak

 
Khaga 2017-06-14 14:02:45 

In reply to Runs

Plenty of Harris' questioning shown on MSNBC..

 
Khaga 2017-06-14 14:03:56 

Let me says this emphatically here and now.. Kamala will not receive the same level of passionate support on this MB as Barrack did..

 
black 2017-06-14 14:06:33 

In reply to Khaga

If she ran for President, she will.

 
Khaga 2017-06-14 14:10:27 

In reply to black

It is not the same,bannuh..different calculus..watch di ride..

 
black 2017-06-14 14:19:55 

In reply to Khaga

Why not? Several people here have written good things about her before this discussion.

 
JahJah 2017-06-14 14:40:43 

She 'look' pretty Jamaican to me. Yes, pun intended. Name sounds Yardie too

Kam goes to JAM or IND. Ah wonder where would make her feel more at home.

Yep...

Yardie dat.
cool

 
nitro 2017-06-14 14:51:47 

In reply to JahJah

Obama was half white.

 
black 2017-06-14 15:14:47 

In reply to nitro

Still is, but he is seen as Black. lol

 
nitro 2017-06-14 15:21:28 

In reply to black

lol

 
birdseye 2017-06-14 15:24:58 

In reply to JahJah

Yardie dat.

 
black 2017-06-14 15:31:36 

In reply to birdseye

Tiger Woods is a good example, he can deny his blackness all he wants but he will still be seen as Black.

 
birdseye 2017-06-14 15:34:11 

In reply to black

Kind of irony to see Khanga fighting over the essence of a black woman --- means ther may be hope for him yet big grin

 
ProWI 2017-06-14 15:38:36 

In reply to birdseye

From the mouth of Kamala Harris, the female Barack Obama.

Let Khaga fight over dat.

 
Ewart 2017-06-14 15:53:43 

In reply to JahJah


Semi-Indian roots yes, but Yardie temperament and resilience clear as day...

And, don't let them forget --- it have Indians in the Yard too.


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birdseye 2017-06-14 15:56:20 

In reply to ProWI

I was just thinking that here is a young woman with the kind of parentage that would have allowed to have gone to almost any other school, yet chose Howard – hardly a bastion for Indo education I might add – yet chose Howard ---- there was an article in the new York Times magazine many years ago – reporting on young black scholars, particularly female, who chose to go to predominantly black colleges for their undergraduate degrees, principally because of social dynamics in their developing years, and then use the more “prestigious” Universities as their burnishing tools…… Kamala seem to fit that mold

 
Chrissy 2017-06-14 16:09:58 

In reply to Khaga

Remain clueless

 
black 2017-06-14 16:23:28 

Look, this woman could have been raised by Martians, her experiences in America would still be that of a Black person.

 
DukeStreet 2017-06-14 16:31:40 

In reply to birdseye
Her sister is Maya Harris, another powerful lawyer and political activist. She is married to Tony West, Associate Attorney General of the United States. An all-round very powerful and multi-cultural family.

 
Runs 2017-06-14 16:54:19 

Howard is a damn good University, we have some MB scholars on here wink
QC men too la creme de la creme

 
Ewart 2017-06-14 18:20:12 

In reply to black


Co-sign.


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Ewart 2017-06-14 18:20:30 

In reply to Runs


Tell dem.


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DukeStreet 2017-06-14 18:24:17 

In reply to Runs

cool

 
sgtdjones 2017-06-14 18:34:11 


Her parents, Shyamala Gopalan and Donald J. Harris, met as graduate students at UC Berkeley. They divorced when Harris was 5.

"My Indian mother knew she was raising two black daughters," said Harris, whose birth in 1964 came two weeks before Californians voted to allow racial discrimination in housing. "But that's not to the exclusion of who I am in terms of my Indian heritage."

Steeped in Indian culture, Harris and her sister, Maya, now a civil rights lawyer and senior policy advisor to Hillary Rodham Clinton, visited family in Madras on occasion. Harris remembers Aretha Franklin's gospel rendition of "Young, Gifted and Black" as a soundtrack of her youth in a black middle-class neighborhood in the flats of Berkeley. Her parents often joined civil rights protests.

"I grew up going to a black Baptist Church and a Hindu temple," Harris recalled as she sipped an iced soy latte at a Berkeley coffee house.

Harris spent her high-school years in Montreal, where her mother worked as a breast cancer researcher at a McGill University hospital. After Howard University, Harris got her law degree at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

On weekends, the girls would visit their father in Palo Alto, where he was an economics professor at Stanford University.

 
JahJah 2017-06-14 18:44:39 

Khagaaaan

wid gven-scat

into di deep blue (of depression) sea

lol

 
DAVE400 2017-06-15 11:12:12 

In reply to birdseye

In dealing with thoroughbred – the pedigree of the sire is usually sited as the determinative --- not being in proximity does not mitigate heritable quotient


Do you realize how Nazi that sounds?

 
Devin 2017-06-15 11:37:29 

My dad attended Howard and then Georgetown University. As far as I know, he is not black.

 
Devin 2017-06-15 11:54:50 

In reply to Khaga

Let me says this emphatically here and now.. Kamala will not receive the same level of passionate support on this MB as Barrack did..


Barack is half white. Blacks claim you as their own whether you're half, 25%, 15%, 5%, 2.5%, 0.5%.

 
Chrissy 2017-06-15 12:00:18 

I love di ignorance on display here. My good friends used to babysit Kamala every weekend back in dem Stanford days - all four of dem (two couples) are Yardies.

Kamala was brought up in both cultures and in black America.

 
black 2017-06-15 12:01:50 

In reply to Devin


Barack is half white. Blacks claim you as their own whether you're half, 25%, 15%, 5%, 2.5%, 0.5%



We didn't set the rules in America, that was the "White man's" doing. In most cases, separation of the races was done by force, that's were the "one drop rule" came from.

 
Runs 2017-06-15 12:02:13 

Love the name dropping, it is a West Indian thing fuh big up oneself lol

 
Chrissy 2017-06-15 12:51:37 

In reply to Runs

My mother's uncles went to Howard and Tuskegee respectively - you should see them. They considered themselves black by the American definition. Her father also went to Howard but he was Afro-Bajan.

 
Runs 2017-06-15 12:55:37 

In reply to Chrissy

Nice, I had a co worker that went to school with your brother and worked with him think was at McKinsey spoke highly of him she is afro-chinese Jamaican. She said he was passionate about Guyana and promised to take her to Kaieteur Falls

 
nitro 2017-06-15 12:57:55 

In reply to Chrissy

Afro-Bajan?

So if you are black and from Nigeria you are Afro-Nigerian?

Obama is Afro-Caucasion American?

 
gvenkat 2017-06-15 13:08:36 

In reply to nitro


So if you are black and from Nigeria you are Afro-Nigerian?


oh fack lol lol

If someone is from South Africa, They are Afro-Black-South African? lol lol

 
Chrissy 2017-06-15 13:34:55 

In reply to gvenkat

No Africa is an African continent - it is you minorities in Africa that add your mother country. Just like India, we assume you're Indian.

Of course you racists believe that Africa has no nationality but Africa is a Continent with majority black African people.

And yes my maternal grandfather was Afro-Bajan - a great looking black man.

 
Chrissy 2017-06-15 13:35:41 

In reply to nitro

Please to KYS.

 
black 2017-06-15 13:48:04 

What is the big deal? Afto-Bajan or Afro-Guyanese are only meant to identify ethnic origin.

 
gvenkat 2017-06-15 14:23:57 

In reply to Chrissy

Of course you racists


Oh the irony. Pot calling kettle black lol

 
birdseye 2017-06-15 15:03:52 

In reply to DAVE400

Do you realize how Nazi that sounds?
NO! -----I am an occasional horse player, and I know how predictive breeding can be in handicapping ---- but as they say – the devil can quote the scriptures for his own purpose wink wink

 
googley 2017-06-15 15:15:24 

In reply to Devin

Barack is half white. Blacks claim you as their own whether you're half, 25%, 15%, 5%, 2.5%, 0.5%.



thats until some shit happens....then you are the "other half" lol lol lol

 
gvenkat 2017-06-15 15:17:13 

In reply to googley

lol lol lol

 
camos 2017-06-15 15:37:07 

In reply to gvenkat


So there can't be a white man from Nigeria or a black person from India?

 
ProWI 2017-06-15 15:42:49 

In reply to Devin

Barack is half white. Blacks claim you as their own whether you're half, 25%, 15%, 5%, 2.5%, 0.5%.


The social construct for blackness is not something black people created. They primarily accepted it for their psychological well- being. Some who fail to do that suffer the debilitating consequences.

 
Chrissy 2017-06-15 17:23:23 

In reply to ProWI

Do you know why Indo-West Indians went to Howard and other African-American colleges?

 
DukeStreet 2017-06-15 17:29:17 

In reply to ProWI
Harris was AKA at HU and a leader in political activities on campus.

 
nickoutr 2017-06-15 22:05:46 

how true is this?
Link Text

 
Runs 2017-06-15 22:25:06 

In reply to nickoutr

lol Where you got that from bro? Who is that nasal narrator?

 
nickoutr 2017-06-15 22:26:14 

In reply to Runs
I think it is electronic or?

 
DAVE400 2017-06-16 07:18:42 

In reply to birdseye

awareness breeds change...

The Nazis have always advocated genetics in their claims of superiority...be careful when throwing out those references.

This thread is stupid by the way.

 
Runs 2017-06-16 08:06:33 

In reply to DAVE400

What is stupid about acknowledging a very good black woman Senator? rolleyes

 
gvenkat 2017-06-16 08:16:53 

In reply to Runs

Issue is she ain't black you dumb truck driver. lol she is indo black american.

 
ponderiver 2017-06-16 08:33:55 

In reply to gvenkat


You are not qualified to define blackness

The ability to define a dumb truck driver is clearly within your remit however.

Now when it comes to the definitive qualification for asinine posters ,currently along with Courtesy...you are ticking all the right boxes.

I have excluded Devin... the poison Dwarf is in a separate category , one that Sammy and his supporters however would instantly recognise and they would gladly claim him as one of their own big grin big grin big grin

 
DAVE400 2017-06-16 08:45:10 

In reply to Runs

Nothing wrong with that...

What is stupid is the battle to claim afro v Indianness as the superior influence on her competencies.

 
JahJah 2017-06-16 10:07:37 

In reply to googley

thats until some shit happens....then you are the "other half"


Like when? Name the instances! Not in Tiger's case. Black people laughed and said "Welcome to the club. If you didn't think you're black before, you certainly know now!"

But we can say it applies to cases like Ben Johnson who suddenly became Jamaican-born. Same too Don Bailey when he was found hitting 200km/p in his Porsche on the Gardiner. Before they were simply Canadian.

You couldn't be a black West Indian to even believe the shyte you wrote.

 
Ewart 2017-06-16 10:15:08 

In reply to JahJah

hitting 200km/p in his Porsche on the Gardiner...



The QEW


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Runs 2017-06-16 10:25:10 

In reply to gvenkat

Kerry yuh fat faced ugly skunt so, when in America accept American wink

 
Runs 2017-06-16 10:26:00 

In reply to DAVE400

Agreed, it's them 2 injun WI wannabe battylickin skunts on here doing

 
gvenkat 2017-06-16 11:22:36 

In reply to Runs

Kerry yuh fat faced ugly skunt so, when in America accept American wink


Preach that in your mosque and your truck driving brothers. cool

 
gvenkat 2017-06-16 11:23:01 

In reply to DAVE400

What is stupid is the battle to claim afro v Indianness as the superior influence on her competencies.


Yep Twissy and this belong nowhere skunt runs started it. lol

 
gvenkat 2017-06-16 11:24:56 

In reply to ponderiver

Now when it comes to the definitive qualification for asinine posters ,currently along with Courtesy...you are ticking all the right boxes.


I'm actually elated to be bracketed along with Courtesy. He is one of the intelligent posters around. When it comes to asinine posters, Don't go far. look around and you will see asses like Cleg, GayGay from your land of birth and Dumb trucks like NineMiles from your adopted land and oh, starting with you and ninemiles. big grin

 
DAVE400 2017-06-16 11:38:26 

Now it has degenerated to who started it...lol...

 
JahJah 2017-06-16 11:44:09 

In reply to gayvenkat

look at you calling people gay.

wonders never cease. big grin

 
camos 2017-06-16 11:55:40 

I see people from Guyana and that normally advocate racial purity fighting to claim a woman, who for the most part has leaned more to the black side of her heritage.

 
gvenkat 2017-06-16 12:01:11 

In reply to DAVE400

hey since u asked. I had to present the facts. cool

 
Khaga 2017-06-16 12:39:21 

In reply to camos

I have called them flipflopping weaklings.. big grin

 
Runs 2017-06-16 12:47:29 

In reply to camos

Who from Guyana claiming her? cool

 
Runs 2017-06-16 12:50:16 

In reply to gvenkat

What trucks have to do with this thread about the esteemed US Senator? Am I missing something?

 
gvenkat 2017-06-16 12:51:59 

In reply to Runs

You did not know Dumbtruck was a euphemism for Dumbfcuk? lol lol Now you know.

 
Runs 2017-06-16 13:08:54 

In reply to gvenkat

Yawn, don't quit your day job bro

 
camos 2017-06-16 13:13:25 

In reply to Runs

no ERM people on this thread?

 
Runs 2017-06-16 13:16:54 

In reply to camos

I have not see any Guyanese that I know smile
Not true

 
gvenkat 2017-06-16 13:34:20 

In reply to Runs

lol