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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIssa questioned if VP Harris understood "black experience" because her parents were well educated
"Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said at CPAC on Friday that he questioned whether Vice President Kamala Harris really understood the experience of most Black Americans because both of her parents were so well educated.
In a discussion with conservative network Real America's Voice, Issa was asked about his recollections of Harris during her days as a politician in his home state of California.
Issa started off by talking about Harris taking on President Joe Biden during a debate in an early Democratic primary where she slammed him for waxing nostalgically about working with senators who also happened to support racial segregation.
Issa said she did this to make it appear that Biden was out of touch with the Black community -- but then accused her of having problems of her own in that regard.
"Remember, this is a young woman who grew up with all the benefits," he said. "Her family, you know, they're both doctorate-level, they enjoyed a beautiful home in a good area of Oakland, and she enjoyed the best growing up. And so I'm not sure that her telling him that he didn't understand the Black experience, I'm not sure she really understands it."
https://www.rawstory.com/darrell-issa-2656795046/
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)JohnSJ
(92,218 posts)I forgot they dug him up
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)JohnSJ
(92,218 posts)NH Ethylene
(30,813 posts)It is ironic that white GOPers with absolutely no idea of the 'Black experience' accuse her of not having it. It's just a disingenuous way of trying to pry the African American vote away from her in a presidential election.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)When a cop stops me at night driving a nice cars them if I am black enough.
Something like that.
Money doesn't stop the discrimination.
Ask Darrell Issa - that is what he is doing by asking such questions - fucking idiot.
Leave to a white supremacist like Issa to decide what the 'black experience' should be.
spanone
(135,844 posts)dweller
(23,641 posts)n/fn/t
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turbinetree
(24,703 posts)so you think you have standing your, one of the 147 that ran for cover and hid while police officer were getting beat up...... you think the last election should have been null and void....resign.....
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,026 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)These jerks write their own jokes.
Shellback Squid
(8,918 posts)brush
(53,787 posts)because we are the most visible "other." And most of us rejoice in it and stand in solidarity with other POCs, Dem/progressive whites and the Ukrainian people.
Period.
We stand against magats, wingers and Putin/trump ass kissers.
Solly Mack
(90,771 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,945 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)They still see you as just a black person..
Cha
(297,299 posts)that he's a Racist POS?
crickets
(25,981 posts)Johonny
(20,851 posts)pretty much verified at this point.
keithbvadu2
(36,827 posts)Does that apply to well-educated Trump with his great grades?