{"id":4772,"date":"2024-11-05T19:38:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T19:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2024-11-05T19:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T19:38:34","slug":"harris-father-ripped-her-over-pot-comment-in-2019-dissociate-from-this-travesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=4772","title":{"rendered":"Harris\u2019 Father Ripped Her Over Pot Comment in 2019: \u2018Dissociate From This Travesty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A newly resurfaced tweet from 2019 has gone viral again, in which now-Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 father publicly took her to task over a remark she made that appeared to stereotype Jamaicans.<\/p>\n

Harris, who was running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, admitted she smoked pot and supported marijuana legalization because \u201chalf my family\u2019s from Jamaica\u201d during an interview in February of that year, which led her father to publicly rebuke<\/a> her for fraudulently stereotyping Jamaicans as \u201cpot-smoking joy seekers\u201d and accused his daughter of pursuing \u201cidentity politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donald Harris, a retired Stanford professor, refuted his daughter\u2019s linking of her Jamaican heritage to pot smoking during her appearance on \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d morning radio program<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy dear departed grandmothers\u2026as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their graves right now to see their family\u2019s 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,\u201d he said in a statement to Jamaica Global Online before his Breakfast Club appearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty,\u201d Donald Harris added.<\/p>\n

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