As Trump and others complain about Kamala Harris' being labeled Black despite her complex ethnicity (Jamaican, South Asian, Irish), check out two excellent articles by respected linguist John McWhorter published in The New York Times "It's Not As Though Biracial Identity is a New Concept" (July 25th), and White House Correspondent Deepa Shivaram, NPR "The Story Behind the Woman":
"Harris father Donald Harris immigrated to the United States from Jamaica, but her parents split up when she was young. Carole Porter, a childhood friend of Harris', says that Gopalan [Kamala's mother] raised her daughters with both cultures, but knew that Kamala and Maya would be seen as Black women.
'In America, we're considered Black women. And that's how our mothers raised us, because that's what they knew we would be seen as,' said Porter, who also is biracial. " (npr, July 31)
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