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===Break with father===
===Break with father===
Donald J. Harris, a [[civil rights]] [[activist]] and the father of Kamala, severely rebuked Kamala after she was asked on a radio broadcast if she had ever smoked [[marijuana]]. Kamala invoked a vulgar and [[racist]] stereotype of [[Jamaica]]ns: {{quotebox|"look, half my family is from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?”}} Her father responded: {{quotebox|"My dear departed grandmothers, as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not, with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of [[identity politics]]. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty."<ref>http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20190217/dad-blasts-harris-stereotyping-jcans-presidential-aspirant-criticised</ref>}}
Donald J. Harris, a [[civil rights]] [[activist]] and the father of Kamala, severely rebuked Kamala after she was asked on a radio broadcast if she had ever smoked [[marijuana]]. Kamala invoked a vulgar and [[racist]] stereotype of [[Jamaica]]ns: {{quotebox|"look, half my family is from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?”}} Her father responded: {{quotebox|"My dear departed grandmothers, as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not, with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of [[identity politics]]. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty."<ref>http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20190217/dad-blasts-harris-stereotyping-jcans-presidential-aspirant-criticised</ref>}}
===Identity politics===
Harris, who is running on a platform of [[identity politics]], criticized identity politics when Sen. [[Bernie Sanders]] attacked her and suggested that candidates should be evaluated on the basis of qualifications and ideas, not identity politics. {{quotebox|"They bring this term up when you talk about issues that are about [[race]], about sexual orientation, about [[religion]]. They’ll bring it up when we are talking about [[civil rights]] issues as a way to marginalize the issue, as a way to frankly try to silence you or shut you up. We need to call it what it is, which is to try and divert away from a conversation that needs to happen in America. Why? One, because we must speak truth. Racism, [[sexism]], [[homophobia]], [[transphobia]], [[anti-Semitism]] are all real in this country, so we need to have that conversation and address it. Two, and this is equally important, how America deals with the issues and the disparities, and also the [[hate]] that can be — that causes these issues to become lethal in proportion — how America deals with these issues is a matter of American identity. This is not about identity politics, and if it is, it’s about the identity of the United States of America. How we handle the issues will be about our [[collective]] identity.”}}
===Racism===
===Racism===