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BumRushDaShow

(145,057 posts)
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 06:48 AM Aug 2024

'It was the same old show': Kamala Harris responds to Trump's attacks on her racial identity

Source: The Guardian

Thu 1 Aug 2024 01.15 EDT


Kamala Harris has shrugged off Donald Trump’s questioning of her racial identity, saying that it was “the same old show” and that “America deserves better”, at a rally in Texas. On Wednesday, in an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), Trump antagonised senior Black journalists and questioned Harris’s race, saying, “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.”

His interview, which was meant to last an hour, according to Axios, was cut short after 34 minutes. In Houston, Harris appeared unruffled and kept her remarks on Trump’s comments brief. “This afternoon,” she said, pausing for boos from the crowd. “Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists.”

“And it was the same old show: the divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me just say, the American people deserve better. The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth. A leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts. We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us – they are an essential source of our strength.”

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was speaking at the Sigma Gamma Rho’s 60th International Biennial Boulé, the Black sorority’s gathering of its entire membership in Houston, Texas. Harris said she was there “as a proud member of the Divine Nine” – a group of Black fraternities and sororities in the US. Harris is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. The Harris campaign said in a statement: “The Donald Trump America saw at NABJ is the one Black voters have known for years.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/01/kamala-harris-texas-rally-donald-trump-racial-identity



Everyone knows that "same old show" = "same old shit".
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'It was the same old show': Kamala Harris responds to Trump's attacks on her racial identity (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 2024 OP
She has turned the corner by throwing it back in Trump's face bucolic_frolic Aug 2024 #1
They tried this with Barack Obama IronLionZion Aug 2024 #2
I contrast *rumps 'not black enough' WestofDenver Aug 2024 #3
Same old story, same old song and dance. InAbLuEsTaTe Aug 2024 #4
Yes. Same old show, story, AND song and dance. raging moderate Aug 2024 #5
Just to throw this out there ... were his "accordian hands" also a racist gesture? bucolic_frolic Aug 2024 #6
He plays the air accordian when he KNOWS he's bullshitting. Talitha Aug 2024 #7
They had the sense to give Don-old the hook (almost literally) only half way through his tired shtick PSPS Aug 2024 #8
The great thing? He's doubling down. Novara Aug 2024 #9
It's the same old shit show. twodogsbarking Aug 2024 #10

bucolic_frolic

(47,895 posts)
1. She has turned the corner by throwing it back in Trump's face
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 07:13 AM
Aug 2024

Exactly what Biden did in 2020, btw. Diversity is strength, not weakness. Compromise and diversity and freedom are up-tempo democratic concepts that shine in comparison to authoritarianism, division, and top-down control.

All we have to do is drive that home and befuddle the press into irrelevance for 100 days.

IronLionZion

(47,283 posts)
2. They tried this with Barack Obama
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 07:20 AM
Aug 2024

Last edited Thu Aug 1, 2024, 09:45 AM - Edit history (1)

he was too black, not black enough, born in Kenya and faked his Hawaii birth certificate, an immigrant parent disqualifies him, etc. So openly racist. That kind of stuff should help turn some voters towards our side in today's environment.

She attended a historically black college and joined a black sorority so his claims are easily disproven as usual.

I posted a 40 minute video of the event here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/132126475

WestofDenver

(24 posts)
3. I contrast *rumps 'not black enough'
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 07:35 AM
Aug 2024

comment to the segregationist "one-drop rule"under which she would have been unequivocally categorized.

raging moderate

(4,522 posts)
5. Yes. Same old show, story, AND song and dance.
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 08:28 AM
Aug 2024

All of these are excellent descriptions of Trump's behavior at that conference.

bucolic_frolic

(47,895 posts)
6. Just to throw this out there ... were his "accordian hands" also a racist gesture?
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 08:38 AM
Aug 2024

You know. Like an old time minstrel show.

PSPS

(14,218 posts)
8. They had the sense to give Don-old the hook (almost literally) only half way through his tired shtick
Thu Aug 1, 2024, 11:44 AM
Aug 2024

Of course, it was insanity to have him there in the first place.

What was trump trying to accomplish there? Provide footage for RW media to highlight how he "stuck it to them uppity Negroes?" He doesn't have to chase the racist voters because he has a lock on them anyway. Did he think this would somehow ingratiate himself with the black community? Is this the republican "outreach" plan?

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