Kamala Harris race attacks: Campaign slams online remarks

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Sen. Kamala Harris pushed back Saturday against online attacks about her race, comparing the latest jabs to racism faced by former President Barack Obama, as fellow 2020 candidates rallied to her defense.

During Thursday's Democratic presidential debate, Donald Trump Jr. retweeted to his millions of followers a Harris critic who took issue with her identity.

"Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican," the critic, who identified as African American,wrote. "I'm so sick of people robbing American Blacks (like myself) of our history. It's disgusting. Now using it for debate time at #DemDebate2? These are my people not her people. Freaking disgusting."

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Lily Adams, the campaign communications director for Harris, dismissed the attack, explaining that people, including President Trump, used similar rhetoric to question Obama's birthplace. Obama was born in Hawaii.

"This is the same type of racist attack his father used to attack Barack Obama," Adams told CNN. "It didn't work then and it won't work now.

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Biden defended Harris on Saturday, saying in a tweet that "racism has no place in America."

"The same forces of hatred rooted in 'birtherism' that questioned @BarackObama's American citizenship, even his racial identity, are now being used against Senator @KamalaHarris," Biden said. "It's disgusting and we have to call it out when we see it."

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I saw this horrible attack (and others) on Senator Harris on Reddit and twitter when she announced.
Also from people who claimed to be on the left (trolls?), not just neo-nazi’s and trump supporters. We have to be vigilant against these egregious attacks.