Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I ...
“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, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black? I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went – she became a Black person.”
By suggesting that Harris has strategically identified as Black for political gain, Trump implies that there’s a political advantage to being Black in America.
Harris and Obama, the children of immigrants, both have mixed-race backgrounds. Harris is the child of a black Jamaican father and an Indian mother. Obama is the son of a black Kenyan father and a white American mother.
However, Trump insists that Harris was “Indian all the way,” while Obama was a “Black president.”
Trump sees Harris as capable of swinging back and forth between being Indian and being black. Yet he has never implied that Obama can swing between being black and being white.
The reason why Trump hits so much the race button and the strictest definition of whiteness is simple: he’s a racist. Not the one who simply fears migrants taking over local jobs. He’s the the filthiest and most anachronistic kind of racist you can imagine, the one forged by the racist ideology that was commonplace in America before M.L.King.
In a country where black people are 4-5 times more likely than the white to be detained and murdered by the police, and where single-race neighbourhoods with diluted political power through gerrymandering are still a thing 60 years after the civil rights movement, Trump often repeats that the biggest issue is the “anti-white sentiment”. That’s the position of someone who firmly believes in maintaining white privilege.
Moreover, his emphasis on how much “black blood” his political opponents have isn’t just stale electoral speculation. It’s an echo of the darkest moments of American history.
One-drop statutes, such as the Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924, attempted to scientifically define who was Black based on how much African ancestry a person had. Passed in dozens of states in the 20th century, these laws were about maintaining white purity. The aim of such laws was to provide a legal framework to define “blackness”.
More specifically, one-drop statutes reflected a fear that people who were considered white in terms of their appearance but had black ancestry could reproduce with other white people. This, in turn, would result in the supposed degeneration of the white race.
If you are an American planning to cast your vote for Trunk this week, keep in mind that voting for a white supremacist makes you a white supremacist too.
https://theconversation.com/the-racist-one-drop-rule-lives-on-in-how-trump-talks-about-black-politicians-and-whiteness-in-america-236467
By suggesting that Harris has strategically identified as Black for political gain, Trump implies that there’s a political advantage to being Black in America.
Harris and Obama, the children of immigrants, both have mixed-race backgrounds. Harris is the child of a black Jamaican father and an Indian mother. Obama is the son of a black Kenyan father and a white American mother.
However, Trump insists that Harris was “Indian all the way,” while Obama was a “Black president.”
Trump sees Harris as capable of swinging back and forth between being Indian and being black. Yet he has never implied that Obama can swing between being black and being white.
The reason why Trump hits so much the race button and the strictest definition of whiteness is simple: he’s a racist. Not the one who simply fears migrants taking over local jobs. He’s the the filthiest and most anachronistic kind of racist you can imagine, the one forged by the racist ideology that was commonplace in America before M.L.King.
In a country where black people are 4-5 times more likely than the white to be detained and murdered by the police, and where single-race neighbourhoods with diluted political power through gerrymandering are still a thing 60 years after the civil rights movement, Trump often repeats that the biggest issue is the “anti-white sentiment”. That’s the position of someone who firmly believes in maintaining white privilege.
Moreover, his emphasis on how much “black blood” his political opponents have isn’t just stale electoral speculation. It’s an echo of the darkest moments of American history.
One-drop statutes, such as the Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924, attempted to scientifically define who was Black based on how much African ancestry a person had. Passed in dozens of states in the 20th century, these laws were about maintaining white purity. The aim of such laws was to provide a legal framework to define “blackness”.
More specifically, one-drop statutes reflected a fear that people who were considered white in terms of their appearance but had black ancestry could reproduce with other white people. This, in turn, would result in the supposed degeneration of the white race.
If you are an American planning to cast your vote for Trunk this week, keep in mind that voting for a white supremacist makes you a white supremacist too.
https://theconversation.com/the-racist-one-drop-rule-lives-on-in-how-trump-talks-about-black-politicians-and-whiteness-in-america-236467