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WenGuangLie 🇺🇸

@guang_lie

Aug 17

Liar liar pants on fire. Your mother transferred 20K to a Canadian Bank when ya’ll moved from Berkeley, CA to one of the most affluent suburbs of Montreal back in 1976. 20K adjusted for inflation is over 100K USD today. Your two immigrant parents had PhDs from UC Berkeley. Your father’s family owns an extensive pimento plantation farm in Jamaica. You mother’s family are Brahmin Indians. Your maternal grandfather was a government official stationed in Zambia. Your mother flew you and your sister out to visit your grandparents in Zambia and in India almost every summer. Nothing about your upbringing is “middle class.” Do I need to pull up the UC Berkeley tuition “receipts” for your mother? All of this is available online, Kamala “Iyer” Harris.

Note: “Iyer” was Kamala’s middle name at birth before it was later changed to “Devi.” “Iyer” is an ethnoreligious designation for a group of Tamil-speaking Brahmins — (top caste).

Here is a dossier of immigration documents on Shyamala Gopalan Harris, the mother of Kamala Harris, that was released by the U.S. government. Read it here for yourself, and then tell me what exactly about her mother is “middle class.”

uscis.gov/sites/default/…

The only reason why Kamala Harris’s family were renters is because as new UC Berkeley PhD graduates, her parents had to move to universities that had job openings for both of them — places that had career opportunities for people in two different departments, and not because of a lack of funds. From the immigration documents of Kamala Harris’s mother, a timeline is provided. Let’s walk through her “rental” history.

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WenGuangLie 🇺🇸

@guang_lie

Aug 1

I'm tired of the gaslighting from the so-called "black" immigrant community in the USA.

Kamala Harris is #NotLikeUs. She is not ADOS. She is not ethnically "Black" as in "Black American." It's time for people to stop trying to sweep these ethnic differences under the rug because the issue of Kamala Harris' ethnicity and how her ethnicity likely informs her politics and worldview is not going away.

Malcolm Gladwell, a biracial Jamaican-American author who was raised in Canada, explores these ethnic differences in his piece, "Black Like Them." Using his own family's immigrant story to begin this conversation, Gladwell helps us understand how the West Indian immigrant's understanding of race and experiences of racism -- more often than not -- differ sharply from those of Black Americans (ADOS):

('Rosie' is Malcolm Gladwell's cousin and 'Noel' is Rosie's husband.)

"...Rosie and Noel are from Jamaica. They don’t consider themselves black at all...To a West Indian, black is a literal description: you are black if your skin is black. Noel’s father, for example, is black. But his mother had a white father, and she herself was fair-skinned and could pass. As for Rosie, her mother and my mother, who are twins, thought of themselves while they were growing up as 'middle-class brown,' which is to say that they are about the same shade as Colin Powell."

Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker, "Black Like Them," pg. 69-70

Gladwell explains that West Indians understand, "black" to mean "Black American" through the retelling of an experience with his cousin's husband, Noel:

"...by the racial categories of my own heritage I [Malcolm Gladwell] am one thing and by the racial categories of America I am another. Once, when Rosie and Noel came to visit me while I was living in Washington, D.C., Noel asked me to show him 'where the black people lived,' and I was confused for a moment until I realized that he was using 'black' in the American sense, and so was asking in the same way that someone visiting Manhattan might ask where Chinatown was. That the people he wanted to see were in many cases racially indistinguishable from him didn’t matter. The facts of his genealogy, of his nationality, of his status as an immigrant made him, in his own eyes, different."

Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker, "Black Like Them," pg. 70-1

"The implication of West Indian success is that racism does not really exist at all— at least, not in the form that we have assumed it does. The implication is that the key factor in understanding racial prejudice is not the behavior and attitudes of whites but the behavior and attitudes of blacks— not white discrimination but black culture. It implies that when the conservatives in Congress say the responsibility for ending urban poverty lies not with collective action but with the poor themselves they are right."

Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker, "Black Like Them," pg. 72

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WenGuangLie 🇺🇸

@guang_lie

Jul 5

Kamala Harris is not “black.” Period.

Her mother, a Brahmin Indian, identified as “Caucasian”

Her father, when given the opportunity to write “Black” or “Negro” for his “Color or Race” on Kamala Harris’s birth certificate indicated that he was “Jamaican.”

Kamala’s father did not identify as black when Kamala was born in the USA, and even in Jamaica, her father would be classified as “mixed” — which is a completely separate category from “black” on Jamaica’s population census questionnaires.

The lineage of Kamala Harris’s father in Jamaica was not subject to the same one-drop rule that ADOS people were subject to in the USA. There is not a one-to-one mapping of racial/ethnic categories from Jamaica to the USA and vice versa.

Kamala Harris’s father was a mixed-race Jamaican who had self-identified as “Jamaican” as an ethnonationality. (Contrary to popular belief among people who THINK that they are clever, there are not sharp delineations between “nationality,” “race,” and “ethnicity.”)

Simply put, Kamala Harris cannot magically become “black” in the USA no matter how much she “skee-wees” and snaps her neck.

Source of Birth Certificate found in this Reuters article:

reuters.com/fact-check/kam…

Source: Sample of Jamaica’s official census questionnaire for individuals used in 2011 can be downloaded from this site.

statinja.gov.jm/Census/PopCens…

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WenGuangLie 🇺🇸

@guang_lie

Oct 7, 2023

Pan-Africanists are full of sh*t, and I’m convinced more than ever that this move to convince ADOS to relocate to Africa is nothing more than a cash grab. Getting a second passport and citizenship sounds good — until you consider the potential tax implications. According to PWC (one of the “big four” accounting firms), Ghana currently has foreign tax relief and tax treaties with 13 countries. Guess what country is not on this list? The United States of America! Now why does this matter you may ask? Well, these treaties contain provisions that relieve foreign residents of the burden of being taxed on certain types of income TWICE! Without these types of agreements in place, an ADOS moving to Ghana could conceivably end up being taxed on the same income in both the United States AND in Ghana.

Those earning more than 600, 000 Cedis (Ghana Currency) — which is about $52K USD are taxed at 35%. A single filer in the USA earning $52K USD a year is subject to a tax of 22% which means that an ADOS person could conceivably have to pay $18,200 to Ghana and $11, 440 to the US government leaving you with a grand total of $22, 360 left of the $52K you had earned.

The United States of America has tax treaties with Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad in the Caribbean, and with Morocco, Tunis, Egypt, and South Africa — in Africa. 🙄 So, when it comes to relocating to Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Togo, Senegal, the Gambia, the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and even Liberia aren’t even serious considerations! If Pan-African dashiki bandits were actually serious people, these types of tax agreements with West African nations would already be place! But, alas they are not!

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WenGuangLie 🇺🇸

@guang_lie

Sep 21, 2023

Did y’all know that welfare reforms negotiated and agreed upon by President Clinton, a Democrat, removed substantive federal oversight protections for money allocated to the poor by dispersing welfare funding in the form of “block grants” to state governments who then had wide discretion on how to spend (misappropriate) that money?

Before President Clinton’s welfare reforms, the federal government would match more than half of every dollar of cash assistance that state governments dispersed to needy families. But after President Clinton’s welfare reforms, the federal government began dispersing large chunks of money each year to state governments who then could decide for themselves how best to help the needy in their states. 🙄We have to look no further than Mississippi to see how some of the Confederate states spent this money…

Almost every time federal oversight is removed from programs that help Black Americans, the American Negro gets screwed over. I don’t care what anyone says, the Confederacy played the long game and did not lose the Civil War.

Like most-all white/ white-adjacent liberals, leftists, and socialists, Professor Matthew Desmond walks right up to the line in attempting to explain why the “three steps to avoid poverty” released in a report by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank, are bogus, pointing out that Black Americans who follow the three steps — 1.) graduate from high school, 2.) obtain a full time job, and 3.) wait until marriage to have children — are far less likely to escape poverty than white Americans. Though Professor Desmond doesn’t come flat out and say it, the “something deeper in our system that needs to be addressed to eliminate poverty in the USA, is deeply entrenched, systemic, anti-ADOS hatred and contempt.

Full Video:

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WenGuangLie 🇺🇸

@guang_lie

Sep 9, 2023

I truly hate to say this, but there is far more evidence of highly-educated Black women acting as the “police” within the Black community than there is of men doing so.

Judge Pinkey Carr: