Kamala shares with us her most tender childhood memories of Kwanzaa.

People actually celebrated Kwanzaa in the 60s-80s?

I think his dad hates her. His dad is a socialist and he must disapprove of Kamala corporatist view. He also publicly shamed her a year ago. To think that he would write a public letter with such harsh words.

her dad

R1 Black Panthers and a handful of activists. It went mainstream in the 90s. I highly, highly doubt her foreign national parents had heard of it in the 70s. They weren't hanging out with people from Watts.

R2 Her father all but disowned her publicly. That doesn't get brought up much 😬

What a crock of shit! Kamala is an American/Asian Indian Woman! I highly doubt she knows a damn thing about Kwanzaa.

They've already had her shaking her ass to Cardi B, telling "weed stories" and listing her favorite Snoop Dogg songs. Next she'll be sharing fried chicken recipes, reciting Maya Angelou and giving tutorials on how to wrap scarves around your head like Erykah Badu.

When will the nonsense stop? Has she no shame?

Her dad did a real number on her. She jumped from men to men back in the 80s and 90s. She dated a bunch of DJs who obviously weren't committed to her. She may wanted to be like the Kardashian at some point. I think she doesn't speak to her dad now.

What a liar she is.

[quote] I think his dad hates her. His dad is a socialist and he must disapprove of Kamala corporatist view. He also publicly shamed her a year ago. To think that he would write a public letter with such harsh words.

Who’s dad?

DL has always hated black women.

She is so full of bullshit I can smell it from here.

Duller than Al Gore and Ralph Nader put together.

Kamala Harris back when she wanted to be a celebrity.

R10, she wasn't "Black" until quite recently. She's Asian-Indian.

so, if I just click on "hate this thread because some nasty republicans started it", will it go away?

R15 is everything wrong with the world today. I’m sure he supports burning books that don’t align with corporate slogans he’s memorized.

R15 / DL Logic goes as follows:

Any criticism of any Democratic Politician means that YOU MUST be a MAGA Hat wearing, Fox News Viewing, Kyle Rittenhouse-worshiping, card-carrying Repub!

R15 You don't have to be Republican to hate her, though after the election it might help. She didn't get any love when she scolded Joe during the Democratic debates and dropped out fairly early along with that closet case Corey Booker and Kristian Gilabrand? Whatever! She wasn't liked in Democratic circles and she's a fraud who uses race as a stepping stone. Her mother came here from India at the age of 19 and was already a doctor. Though to hear Comma-la tell it it sounds like a cliched poor immigrant tale.

Harris and the odious company she keeps is far more deplorable than fucking her way up the power ladder.

Are people still pretending this Kwanzaa bullshit is legit???

R15 and her extensive knowledge of Rap did not include knowing Tupac was dead!

R20, I've never known one Black person that celebrated Kwanzaa. By this point it's only known as something out of touch Whites think that Black people celebrate.

Thread for deplorables

R23 = Deplorable

R17 You are lucky those deranged folks didn't call you a Russian Troll or Boris.

“I’m that girl!”

R21 She apparently doesn't know that Kwanzaa is dead as well!

R1 Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966. It's a celebration of African-American culture. Since Kwanzala is East Indian and Jamaican I'm not sure her family would be celebrating it.

R26 You're not that girl, Kamala!

People will know she made shit up. It's not like her East Indian and Jamaican heritage is a top secret that US people are not supposed to know. What's the point of doing that.

R23 It's a thread about a deplorable

America going from one nutty Vice President to another.

[quote][R10], she wasn't "Black" until quite recently. She's Asian-Indian. —Anonymous

Oh, please. Tell that to her Howard University diploma.

[quote]DL has always hated black women.

Gurl, NO! Why do you think may of us talk like them?

Kwanzaa was celebrated in the Bay Area where Kamala was raised in the '70's. It's a wonderful holiday honoring principles like collective work, unity and responsibility. The holiday involves a different concept for each day, lighting candles, and having wholesome harvest meals.

It was popular and wholesome. What is wrong with you all not believing Kamala celebrated this with her family? You prefer Mike Pence?

R35 = black & white baby thinking = everything wrong with the world today

The confected "Kwanzaa" is based on the Yam Festival

Well now, this thread is about as infested as any in DL history. Interesting...

I hear nothing but bad things about her but don't understand why. I'm not American and don't know her story. She does seem a bit fake in the videos I've seen. All sort of gushy.

R38 refuses to believe actual human beings, even gay people who vote straight ticket Dem, could possibly dislike any Democrats or disagree, ever, with any of the policies the party puts forth. You’re a Good German, r38.

R39 She's the party establishment choice and has been railroaded into her position against the will of the voters. She tanked spectacularly in the Democratic Primary.

The plan is for Biden to either get an illness or be shamed out of office by his crackhead son's improprieties so she can take over.

R35 It's a holiday for an ethnic group she was not raised in and joined as an adult.

[quote]What is wrong with you all not believing Kamala celebrated this with her family?

R35 So your racist assumption is that Harris and her family celebrated a completely foreign to them holiday because her father is Jamaican.

[quote] All sort of gushy

Yes, the little girl on that bus (with her East Indian mother and Jamaican father) gushes over "most tender childhood" memories of a 1960s San Franciscan festival stolen from the Nigerian Yam Festival R37.

We know the people trying to deblack Kamala are only doing it to torpedo her chances in 2024. They know she's a non-starter without the black vote, but they're in for a shock. Black women (the real kingmakers in elections) are solidly behind her. She's one of them, a HBCU product and still active in the largest black sorority in the country.

Muriel really needs to flush the racist white fags from this site.

^^ as long as she takes homophobes like you with her

If this is what it's like now, what the hell is going to happen when she becomes President?...with people on the right AND left hating her.

[quote]The confected "Kwanzaa" is based on the Yam Festival

This is exactly what I thought.

[quote]what the hell is going to happen when she becomes President?...with people on the right AND left hating her.

She'll understand what it's like being a Jew in America.

I celebrate Kwanzaa and I'm white.

R51 Details, please. Which ancestors are you honoring?

How do you celebrate Kwanzaa, R51?

Do you eat lots of yams? Do you burn them as sacrifices to the gods for a good harvest?

Do you wear colourful costumes?

[quote]I celebrate Kwanzaa and I'm white.

Kwanzaa is going to become a household word in the America of the 2020s

She's not as popular with African American women as white people seem to think, partly because some of them feel she is phony and plays up her blackness only because it is politically advantageous for her to be seen as African American rather than as Indian American.

They would still vote for her against any Republican though, even if their preference would have been for an ADOS candidate.

[quote][R39] She's the party establishment choice and has been railroaded into her position against the will of the voters. She tanked spectacularly in the Democratic Primary.

Who would the voters have preferred?

I like that she's moderate. She'll be fine if she has to step in, I mean really, after the shitshow of the last four years that's no even over. That she celebrated Kwanzaa is bullshit tho.

She's going to be the Meghan Markle of politics. Will be relentlessly "attacked" and "misunderstood" by everyone. Something to look forward to next year .

I was in college in CA in the 70s, and we had it there/then. Kamala is just the demographic (academic political parents) to have celebrated it. But back then I think it only had one “a” at the end.

R56 Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg, or Klobuchar- who all performed better than her in the primaries.

Many of the BS posts above are amusing as Kamala was far and away considered the best choice for a running mate back before Biden had chosen one. Literally all of the other possible choices were in her rearview mirror from day one. THAT is why she ran in the primaries to begin with. The primary race was always between Joe and Bernie. Even Warren never had a chance in Hell (even though she had the notoriety that Kamala, Pete, etc. lacked). She led the "Veepstakes" polls for everyone that mattered including Vegas. I only read nasty things about Senator Harris (sorry, VP Harris that is!) on Repug sites and you guessed it - here. She is moderate, well-spoken, beautiful, personable and most certainly has an "IT" factor in spades. Everyone has a right to their opinion, but most Democrats (not pathetic trolls and Trumptards who invade this website 24/7 pretending to be liberal) have little if anything against her. She might not be your personal favorite, but I can't see any reason to dislike her either. The only polarizing thing about VP Harris is that she is female. If you are a racist and hate her for that reason - fuck off and get with the times. Same goes for you if you are sexist. It's almost 2021 folks.

There's no way she can win a presidential campaign. And I think she'll get primaried.

Like Biden, Harris was considered among least unsuitable/objectionable in the pack of wholly unsuitables/objectionables. The PR/populism doesn't change that reality.

What about Diwali? Or did she and her family not bother with the uncool winter festivals?

R62 - Well I guess that you have 4 years to stew about that, for now - no one gives a fuck and this isn't terribly relevant when neither she or Biden are even in office yet. 4 years of being the 2nd most powerful person in the country changes a lot when it comes to his or her future "electability".

Everyone has forgotten that you even exist, Nimrata (R64). And that is way we plan to keep it.

Die in a grease fire, OP

Biden’s people are praying to God that he serves out a full first term because she can’t win if she’s at the top of the ticket. She failed miserably in the primaries with her radical socialist agenda. Furthermore, like what other people have said already, she’s a total phony and plays the race card every five seconds. Even in the VP debate she came across as a cunt.

She was picked for one reason and one reason only: to get the black vote.

R69 Which was never at risk.

Didn’t her parents divorce by the time she was 5? I find it hard to believe that her divorced Indian mother celebrated Kwanzaa.

R70, they wanted to push up the turnout.

She is annoying in the sense that when things don’t go her way she always blames it on racism and sexism.

[Quote] Her dad did a real number on her. She jumped from men to men back in the 80s and 90s. She dated a bunch of DJs who obviously weren't committed to her.

It’s amazing how no other woman ever does that....

Hmmm....you don't like my Africam American alter ego?

I guess I will go back to being Indian. It is less cool but I just have to settle for it.

Kwanzaa is just as bullshitty as Christmas and Chanukah, so get off your fucking horses.

That said, it became popular among black activists, so it is very possible that her family celebrated it. They lived in Berkeley California afterall

One thing I love about Kamala is how much she annoys the right

[Quote] She was picked for one reason and one reason only: to get the black vote.

So?

[Quote] She was picked for one reason and one reason only: to get the black vote.

Pence was chosen to get the evangelical vote; Biden was chosen to work the Senate; Cheney was chosen because he supported a powerful executive and understood Washington politics....

And on and on and on

[quote]Kwanzaa is just as bullshitty as Christmas and Chanukah

I'm surprised so many people round here even know what it is...and so much about it.

We'll we can see that some have already started their New Year's resolutions to push their future agendas already. Ain't no rest for the wicked.

[Quote] they wanted to push up the turnout.

And it worked. So it was brilliantly done

[Quote] She failed miserably in the primaries with her radical socialist agenda

Seems someone let the GOP propaganda machine into DL

[Quote] Didn’t her parents divorce by the time she was 5? I find it hard to believe that her divorced Indian mother celebrated Kwanzaa.

We just had a president who lied with every breath.

I’m giving the next 4 years a complete pass. Lie away, Biden and Harris!

It’s hilarious that people are still on DL whether Kamala was a good VP pick.

um, they won... by 8 million votes.

[quote]Kwanzaa is just as bullshitty as Christmas and Chanukah,

R76 is ignorant about Jewish festivals but doesn't let that stop her posting her stupidity.

[Quote] Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg, or Klobuchar- who all performed better than her in the primaries.

Yes, they were all great for a Democratic primary. The would have performed poorly as national candidates

[Quote] She's not as popular with African American women as white people seem to think, partly because some of them feel she is phony and plays up her blackness only because it is politically advantageous for her to be seen as African American rather than as Indian American.

Black women support her because they know that, no matter her heritage, she is perceived as a black woman when she walks down the street.

She went to Howard and joined a prominent black women’s sorority.

She’s got nothing to prove to anyone about being black

[Quote] The confected "Kwanzaa" is based on the Yam Festival

The congested Xmas is based on the Winter Equinox festivals. The Xmas tree came from non Christian Germanic tribes. Heck, Jesus, if he existed, was likely born in August

[Quote] America going from one nutty Vice President to another.

Except this VP is a huge gay rights supporter and completely trounced the last one in their debate.

[Quote] She's going to be the Meghan Markle of politics. Will be relentlessly "attacked" and "misunderstood" by everyone. Something to look forward to next year .

The only people who give a shit and attack Meghan Markel are DLers

R88 R90 et al Shake those pom poms fangurl. Or is that Harris PR cadet?

Truthfully, I only got excited about the Biden campaign after he selected Kamala

[Quote] [R88] [R90] et al Shake those pom poms fangurl. Or is that Harris PR cadet?

Why I love DL: A Russian trolls calls out a Harris troll

R94 I'm not Russian. But you most certainly ARE a Harris troll. Simple-minded, woefully assumptive, but that's what they get for free.

R95, sure, Vlad, sure

How revealing, R94. You have no clue about the millions in this country that have multi-ethnic and cultural backgrounds? I had this half-Jewish friend when I was in the service. She celebrated Christmas and Hannukuh and even had a drink with her solstice loving pagan friends.

That 'All American white' view of the US is outdated, and has been, from the beginning. We're mostly mongrels over here....but perhaps I'm just assuming too much when I believe you must be from somewhere else because of your quaint expressions and attitudes around Vice President Elect Harris.

And being Indian, Indian-American or Hindu is cool as hell. Being human is the coolest thing there is, in their view. BTW, they don't consider you to be a real human being. Perhaps you'll become one someday, but you really must try to see yourself as worthy before that process can even begin. We're all trying, to be honest, but I believe you just need to try a bit harder.

R82 Laying it on too thick, hun.

[quote]The only people who give a shit and attack Meghan Markel are DLers

I don't think so gurl. Wherever she's mentioned online you get exactly the same as you do on here.

R84 A woman who lies about trivial bullshit will lie about things that matter.

I apologize, R94. My comment was meant for the color-blind person at R75.

[quote]Black women support her because they know that, no matter her heritage, she is perceived as a black woman when she walks down the street.

I'd never have known she's considered "black" or has any of that heritage.

[Quote] [R84] A woman who lies about trivial bullshit will lie about things that matter.

The only person calling her a liar is you.

Next you’re going to start a thread about how Kamala is lying about her hair color

[Quote] [R76] is ignorant about Jewish festivals but doesn't let that stop her posting her stupidity.

And what a complete coincidence that this Jewish festival occurs when every other society on the face of this earth for the last 2500 years has also had a festival—to celebrate the winter equinox

But, noooo, the Jewish one is completely original?

R84 Great another 4 years of lies! Just what we need! Such twisted logic!

Every politician is a liar anyway.

So I see OP is now lined out. Is this what we will expect for the next four years, anyone even questioning Kamala Harris will be crossed out?

Has Kamala ever commented on which wrestling match was her best and which wrestler was her toughest opponent?

[quote] And what a complete coincidence that this Jewish festival occurs when every other society

R104 The date of the festival of Channukah is lunar. It occurs in the Xtian calendar anytime between the third week of November and beginning of Jan. It celebrates an historic victory and the rededication of the Second Temple. But don’t let reality get in the way of your simple-minded, woefully assumptive stupidity.

R107 Resistance is futile. You will submit.

Her Sister Maya Harris prefers Christmas.

White racists are always trying to tell certain black people that they're not black enough. Always!

R106 So you are acknowledging that Comma-la is a liar who did not celebrate Kwanzaa!

Yes if you talk bad about Kamala you’ll be grayed out. You can call Melania a whore all day and people will cheer around here...

Wishing you all a happy and fruitful Kwanzaa!

What religion does she actually belong to today, if any?

Her mother was a Hindu, but she says she grew up attending Black churches, and apparently celebrating Kwanzaa. And now she’s married to a Jew.

OP, don't you have a Klan rally to attend?

As usual, DL never fails with its racist and ignorant trolling. Her dad influences the development of Kwanzaa in the early 60s before meeting her mom:

[quote]Harris arrived at the University of California, Berkeley on a colonial Jamaican government scholarship in the fall of 1961. Later in the fall of 1962, he spoke at a meeting of the Afro American Association—a students' group at Berkeley whose members would go on to establish the discipline of Black studies, propose the holiday of Kwanzaa, and help form the Black Panther Party. After his talk, he met Shyamala Gopalan (1938–2009), a graduate student in nutrition and endocrinology from India at Cal Berkeley who was in the audience. According to Harris, "We talked then, continued to talk at a subsequent meeting, and at another, and another." In July 1963 he married Gopalan. The couple divorced in December 1971, when daughter Kamala was seven years old and daughter Maya was four years old. The children visited Harris's family in Jamaica as they grew up.

I really hate the fuck out of the racists that seem to dominate here all the time, and I'm white. Don't tell me this is just how DL is because I've been here almost 20 years.

[quote]Her Sister Maya Harris prefers Christmas.

The two are not mutually exclusive you ignorant fuck.

[quote]What a crock of shit! Kamala is an American/Asian Indian Woman! I highly doubt she knows a damn thing about Kwanzaa.

Her dad influenced the development of Kwanzaa you stupid fucking shitstain.

[quote]So your racist assumption is that Harris and her family celebrated a completely foreign to them holiday because her father is Jamaican.

How is it racist to believe what someone herself says? The obvious racism was your assumption that she was lying in the first place!

The troll logic here is really something. "you're racist for believing a black woman is telling the truth about herself!" Might want to dial it down a notch, Cletus. Your hatred is clouding your already limited intellect.

[quote] I really hate the fuck out of the racists that seem to dominate here all the time, and I'm white.

Hilarious that you thought you had to tell us you're white. No one thought you were black. The only ones screaming racism every thread are "concerned" whites.

So her father invented Kwanzaa?

She loves to climb the Black Lives Matter tree when it’s politically expedient and yet as a prosecutor she locked away more black men for smoking pot than anybody else. However, the media is in the tank for her and Biden and they’ll be allowed to dodge and lie all they want.

Some unnamed person invented 'kwanzaa' in the year 1983.

[quote] And being Indian, Indian-American or Hindu is cool as hell

Well you have special insights, R97. You could go tell tell this lonely heart—

[quote] A woman who lies about trivial bullshit will lie about things that matter.

Kamala is our very own Merle Oberon.

R122 Her father gave speeches to a student group whose members would later go on to assist in founding Kwanzaa- so no, he was uninvolved and probably didn't know or care about it.

He is Jamaican. The word is Swahili.

Swahili is spoken on the west coast of the wrong island.

R37 I don't see how Kwanzaa resembles anything in that article. It looks a lot more like a rip-off of Hannukah, in which a row of candles is lit one-by-one each night.

R114 - Because Melania IS a whore with documented photo evidence and not much else from what I can see. She can't speak English, is a plagiarist, is worthless in general and is essentially a dumb bag of rocks. But I really don't care do you?

Melania Trump being the classy bitch that she is:

R130, R131 That woman is going out the door.

Kamala will be our President very, very soon when old Joe is carted out the door.

[quote] I hear nothing but bad things about her but don't understand why.

Because she’s Black and a woman.

No, R133 it's because what R106 tells us. "Every politician is a liar"

If Kwanzaa is really about yams, I already like it better than theistic holidays. I don’t trust anyone who believes in the supernatural and sure as shit don’t want them in charge of anything more than bagging my groceries.

R132 That's not at all comforting, since it implies Democrats defrauded the public with a sham candidate while planning to oust him and insert a party appointee no one voted for.

Scummy much?

The Irish relied on potatoes in the same way as Nigerians rely on yams.

They have the festival praising God for giving them rain for the yam crop.

I love potatoes. I’d be much more enthusiastic about holidays if more of them were potato-centric. That’s it. I’m celebrating Kwanzaa from now on.

Potatoes can be fried, mashed, boiled or eaten cold as potato crisps.

But can you do the same for yams?

R139, sure, why can’t you do those things to yams? Who says you can’t?

^ I've tried Sweet Potatoe and found them disturbingly sweet.

I've never tried yams because their name reminds me of Popeye and Olive Oyl.

What the fuck do you have against Pop Eye & Olive Oyl?

You can cook yams (taro) and sweet potatoes (a different plant) all the same ways you cook potatoes.

Let's be frank, dear, they are Lower Class.

R143 But are they better? Or just different?

R145 Sweet potatoes are much softer and really sweet. They're better as a dessert.

Taro is really starchy and kind of bland. A lot more similar to a red potato.

I'm a cook rather than a gourmet so I prefer vegetables that are versatile.

Carrots, for instance, can be baked, shaved or grated to go in sandwiches or blended to be added to citrus smoothies.

Bitch called me a racist on national TV. I'm over her. JILL! make sure she gets a lousy office with a squeaky chair and watch that she doesn't slip anything into my food.

I rarely peel my potato skins unless I have to. And I assume the skins are nutritious.

But neither of these skins look appealing—

[quote]I hear nothing but bad things about her but don't understand why.

[quote]Because she’s Black and a woman.

Because while R133 pretends, rationalizes and turns a hypocritical blind eye, others won't/don't.

[quote] If Kwanzaa is really about yams, I already like it better than theistic holidays. I don’t trust anyone who believes in the supernatural and sure as shit don’t want them in charge of anything more than bagging my groceries.

R135 I guess we need our new President-in-waiting refer to explain whether her cherished "tender childhood memories" refer to wholesome vegetable foods or irrational, supernatural rituals.

Maybe the government is implanting false memories in her brain.

R152 that would be the Mandela Effect

Did Mandela claim to have celebrated Kwanzaa as a child?

That must be it. She’s Mandela Affected.

R154, Mandela either invented the yam or recalled a childhood spent in dreary Dickensian England.

I can't see any dirty yams in that expensive-looking apartment

Her Jamaican dad is an affluent academic. I wonder how he and his family in Jamaica feel about her aligning herself with African Americans. In my experience the well-off and educated Africans and Afro-Caribbeans are often very snobbish and even somewhat bigoted in how they perceive African Americans.

Sort of like how the Taiwanese, Singaporeans and Hong Kongers feel about the mainland Chinese.

R156, they don’t leave the yams put for guests to filch.

Yams are the staff of life

You can bake and roast yams, that's all. You can't do much else with them.

R160, an Indian friend of mine taught me to make a yogurt-based gravy that she sometimes cooked yams in. I found the gravy delicious but I can rarely find yams in my local supermarket so I use other vegetables in it instead.

Do the Nigerians mill their yams to make yam flour and yam bread?

Th degree and type of deceit in her tweet is very disturbing. It is extended, it plays on emotions of trust, love and bonds, and it is all completely unnecessary. It is completely gratuitous deceit. I am a life long democrat but this is the shit that drives me up the wall.

Looks like this woman is going to keep us entertained for years to come.

[quote] the shit that drives me up the wall

I can't bear it either. Up the wall or down the wall.