Podcast Host Shows Right Way To Ask Kamala Harris About Her Racial Identity
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"My mother was very clear," the vice president told podcaster Matt Barnes. "She was raising two Black girls to be two proud Black women."
Former NBA player and current podcast host Matt Barnes showed there’s a right way to ask Vice President Kamala Harris about her identity as a person of mixed race.
During Monday’s episode of his “All the Smoke” podcast, Barnes asked Harris what she learned as the child of Indian and Jamaican immigrants.
It was a far cry from other questions the vice president has been asked about her racial background, mainly because Barnes, who is himself a mixed-race Black person, wasn’t using the kind of false and inflammatory framing embraced by people like former President Donald Trump.
“You’ve always been secure in your identity, who you are,” Barnes said. “But what do you feel, or what do you think, when you hear people kind of questioning just the fabric of who you are?”
“Well, one, I don’t listen to it,” Harris replied, laughing. “I’m really clear about who I am. And if anybody else is not, they need to go through their own level of therapy. That’s not my issue.”
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