mothra wrote on Aug 6
th, 2024 at 5:57am:
Whilst there has been an abundance of stupid comments, i think the daftest was from some random Fox "news" commentator i saw, i think, on The Daily Show.
Something along the lines of Harris has no identifying factors with African Americans because she is Indian and Jamaican. As though bigots ask you what sort of black you are.
Well i mean, Frank probably does but he's a lunatic.
It's just kindergarten stuff.
The American concept of 'race' is as blood-simple as their belief in American freedom.
'Black' means African American to them.
In their world of DEI, those up for consideration are: women, African Americans, Hispanics and 'gender-diverse' persons.
So-called 'whites', subcontinental Asians, east/southeast Asians and Jews are not considered DEI-worthy.
Hence the Yankist notion that Harris has, somehow, gamed the DEI process because she's of subcontinental Indian ethnicity... y'know... not a real black.
She ticks the DEI box in that she's a woman, but...
Ramaswamy would have been excluded on all counts.