"Kamala Harris is not Black" Twitter attack

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

[SouthernProgressive]

1. If one is going to claim coordination...

They should at least state who they believe is coordinating it.

[brooklynite]

2. Other than "people who don't want Kamala Harris to be President"...

...what would be the basis for identifying the origin?

[SouthernProgressive]

7. Coordination requires a group or groups working together.

Without it, the claim doesn't hold. It's simple speculation based off of limited information.

[applegrove]

20. Only the social media site owners can find out or guess in an educated

way who the coordinators are. Really so many groups are coordinating it will be harder to figure out who they are by you and me than during 2016. We have to be realistic.

[FBaggins]

27. It does... but it doesn't require that we know who is coordinating them

If right-wing media outlets all start using the same language to frame a particular issue, it's clear that someone is coordinating that message. You can't pretend that it isn't true unless we can name the people coordinating the message.

[octoberlib]

3. These are all different accounts tweeting the

same thing. Obviously coordinated. I don’t know how she’d be able to know who did it with out an FBI investigation.

[SouthernProgressive]

6. Then there is zero defined coordination.

There are over 69 million twitter users in the US. How many are "all different accounts tweeting the same thing?"

[Gothmog]

17. This is the same pattern used by Russia n 2016 agaibst Clinton

[SouthernProgressive]

19. I simply understand how many racists are out there.

More than just "look at these couple of tweets" is often good. I think calling this coordinated without more is to be dismissive of the depths of racism in the US. This isn't even close to the first time I have seen this foolishness when it comes to Harris.

[Gothmog]

21. This is part of a planned attach on Senator Harris

This is the same pattern that we have seen before

Link to tweet

[StarfishSaver]

25. "NO COLLUSION! NO COLLUSION!"

Nothing to see here.

[Iliyah]

4. Jeezus . . .

Black Americans know.

[demmiblue]

5. Malcolm Nance:

Link to tweet

[IronLionZion]

8. This didn't work against Obama in 2008

They claimed he was Kenyan and White, not black. Cory Booker has 2 black parents but they might spread this lie about him somehow too.

Hell, Freepers are claiming Kamala is ineligible to run for president because her parents were immigrants.

[Zambero]

15. Making it up as they go along

Situational "reality" at its finest. Would not be surprising if more than a few of them were "Canada Ted" Cruz supporters during the GOP primaries a couple years back.

[JI7]

22. that was before the Russian bots

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

9. Not that it matters but is it true or not?

Her wiki says her mother was Tamil Indian and her father Jamaican.

Again not that it matters "warren"

[Goodheart]

10. WTF. Lots of Jamaicans are black.

[onetexan]

11. Jamaican is BLACK. 'Nough said. Kamala identifies as Black and Indian.

I happen to like her and find her very sharp. Just don't like how she came after Joe last night by taking his words out of context.

[Celerity]

14. Jamaica Demographics

http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/jamaica-population/

Jamaicans of African descent represent 76.3% of the population
followed by 15.1% Afro-European
3.4% East Indian and Afro-East Indian
3.2% Caucasian
1.2% Chinese
0.8% other

[demmiblue]

26. ...

[MrsCoffee]

28. JFC.

[Tracer]

12. Strangely, (or stupidly) for a long time, I didn't think Kamala was black.

This was ages ago so forgive me. I thought that she was from an Indian background, based on absolutely nothing except her name --- which struck me as Indian.

Now I know her ethnic background.

[Indygram]

13. Probably the same Russian bots/MAGA troll farm accounts that have been attacking Beto for months

Sadly, this is what happens to EVERY candidate that is a threat to Trump. They started on Beto before he even entered the race. The worst part is that supporters of other candidates will jump right in and help spread disinformation and attacks. Well, except for the candidates they want to be the nominee.

[Thekaspervote]

16. The real story behind this... right now they are saying she's not black to try and sway AA voters

In another scenario when it suits them They will be saying the opposite.

[IronLionZion]

18. I first heard of her when she had won the Attorney General election in California

and Indian newspapers listed the record number of Indian-Americans who had won election that year. Kamala was notably absent from those news articles and it was noteworthy that people on social media told them she's just as Indian as she is Black.

In this case the twitter troll bots are promoting division between black Americans and black immigrants from other countries, which is just as dumb since Jamaicans had the same roots in the trans-Atlantic slave trade as black Americans. So I doubt this wedge issue will get much traction, especially considering how bad Trump is. Isn't Trump ineligible for office because of his illegal immigrant mother?

[Gothmog]

23. From Joe Biden

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

24. This was a coordinated campaign

Link to tweet

[emulatorloo]

29. Birthers and neo-nazis are behind this. Good article in Buzzfeed about origins of this.

A New Racist Campaign Against Kamala Harris Is Taking Shape


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/kamala-harris-black-citizenship

Obama birther conspiracy theorists and prominent neo-Nazis, including Andrew Anglin, have questioned her eligibility to run for president, and she’s been labeled an “anchor baby.”

[Dickbaker]

30. How black isn't the point

Harris has brown skin resulting from black father and Indian mother. I think it is fine if she chooses to have a black agenda. As long as she has an anti Trump agenda and helps the Democratic agenda. Temporarily I'm afraid her presidential goal is her true agenda.
Dick

[demmiblue]

31. What exactly is a black agenda?

[StarfishSaver]

32. What is a "black agenda"? And why is it a problem if her "presidential goal is her true agenda"?

Isn't a "presidential goal" the "true agenda" of every candidate running for president?