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/…

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

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…

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.

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.

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:

Judge Kendra Coleman:

They want the category so that they can “enjoy the political and economic benefits.”

The “Latinos” have run this con.

South Asians have run this con.

Hasidic Jews have run a similar con to access SBA programs.

Now, we have the Middle Easterners trying to get in the con.

https://twitter.com/the_emancipator/status/1661460744695873539

And before folks try to come for me, Jews collectively fought for Hasidic Jews to have access to SBA programs.

apnews.com/article/2ae5f4…

On 「The Color Purple」:

“I thought the movie was awful really…”

James Baldwin
December 12, 1986

https://twitter.com/rvareid/status/1661038210955329536

In my first tweet, James Baldwin is responding to this question:

Yeah meritocracy!!! 😍

https://twitter.com/kennymxu/status/1602029524744544259

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/11/16…

Whenever I see people whose U.S. citizenship was made possible through the 14th amendment (originally intended only for Freedmen) and through BA Civil Rights struggles — argue AGAINST reparations for ADOS, I’m reminded of an immigrant doctor who blithely wore Negro-leather shoes. In defending his taste for Negro-skin leather shoes, the immigrant doctor argued, “I have no sentiment about this matter. Were I a Southerner - in the American sense of the word - I might be accused of being actuated by a race prejudice. But I am a foreigner by birth..”

Latinos: “We’re Mestizos -true Native Americans!”

🥴Also Latinos:

‘Don’t call me little Oaxacan’ aims to persuade local school districts to prohibit the words ‘Oaxaquita’ and ‘indito’ (little Indian) from being used on school property to combat bullying.
latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2… “One of the main themes is the discrimination, bullying, teasing and verbal abuse that they receive from other Mexican immigrant classmates who are not indigenous,” he said. The abuse, which often goes unnoticed or is minimized by teachers and administrators…

A Thread 🧵on the 'Race Consciousness' (or LACK thereof) of a U.S. Haitian Immigrant Community

"A Case Study of Race Consciousness Among Haitian Immigrants," JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES, Vol. 20 No. 2, December 1989 224-239 WHAT IS BLACK RACE CONCIOUSNESS?

"Black race consciousness means blacks’ affective commitment to blacks in their relations to whites." The goal of black consciousness in the United States is...to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American..."

Before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese people were granted an honorary white status through the Burlingame Treaty of 1868 that effectively gave them unearned rights and privileges in the U.S. that newly emancipated slaves who had built the USA did not possess.

https://twitter.com/stevemillerfoto/status/1538867221895778304

Moreover, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 ONLY prohibited the immigration of Chinese LABORERS. This restriction did apply to merchants teachers, students, travelers, and diplomats. There is a long history of “elite” Chinese people who immigrated to the USA between 1882-1924.

At the elite boarding schools & Ivy League level universities, you will find that the black students in those places are mostly 1st/2nd gen Africans & West Indians who arrived in the U.S. w/ a class-climbing consciousness that allowed them to plug into resources intended for BAs. At the Ivy I attended, I was one of the handful of BAs with 4 sharecropping grandparents. While I had attended a sub-average public high school, almost all of my African & West Indian classmates had attended elite private schools on scholarships that I had no idea even existed!

Please find me an example of a Black leader of an African American-legacy Civil Rights organization (like the NAACP, the National Urban League, SNCC, SCLC, etc.) that routinely used the racist legal system to uphold white supremacy to disenfranchise Mexican American citizens.

https://twitter.com/socnortena/status/1529645260611104768

Please find me the historical examples of African Americans fighting to uphold white supremacy to further empower the white supremacists already lynching and violently oppressing us. (This doesn’t even make sense.)

A Haitian American is president of the National Medical Association, an organization founded in 1895 by physicians that were Black U.S. chattel slavery descendants. 😒 “The Diaspora” has benefited richly from strategically aggregating and disaggregating with BAs… In 1972, Haitian doctors formed their OWN organization — The Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad, to mark their presence as a growing ethnic entity in America, foster professional alliances, and promote the health and interest of the Haitian immigrant community at large.

Did you know that Jeff Bezos strong-armed the founders of a VERY successful diaper.com company into selling their company to him by having Amazon sell diapers for so cheaply that Amazon was on track to lose $100 million on diapers ALONE over a 3-month period?

😳 I stumbled across this information while watching Rae (a very talented multidisciplinary artist on YouTube) review art supplies made by Amazon. To confirm the veracity of her story, I did my own digging.

It’s true. 😳 slate.com/technology/201…

A Black American nurse discusses the anti-Black American bigotry she’s encountered among her fellow nurses from Africa and the Caribbean.

(Special shoutout to Flowertower who first posted this on her YouTube channel: ) In this article, @DrQuinnCapers4, @DMGrayMD, and @McDougle2020 argue that admissions committees should not “differentiate between African Americans born in the United States and those who immigrated to the United States or are the offspring of immigrants.”
journals.lww.com/academicmedici…

Another Nigerian in Black American business…😒

https://twitter.com/thankuswttt/status/1527316211091943425

A story in tweets:

There is no “Black and Brown” coalition. It’s a sham.

A thread 🧵 on EEOC lawsuits wins of Black U.S. chattel slavery descendants adversely affected by Hispanic hiring preferences: A Black, non-Hispanic man told the EEOC that Champion Fiberglass refused to provide him with a job application after it learned he couldn't speak Spanish. The EEOC sued on behalf of an entire class of non-Hispanic job applicants.

Result: Company paid $225,000 to settle

In 2007, Black U.S. chattel slavery descendants (African Americans/ BAs) won an EEOC “same race” suit against an Ethiopian-owned company in Houston that discriminated against BAs in favor of native African drivers. Black ethnic specificity is already understood — federally… In the EEOC complaint, Andrew Cooper — a black American working for Ethio Express reveals how he was told by Ethio Express management that,

"you blacks are happy as long as whites give you food stamps."