The fact that both the American colonies and Jamaica were possessions of the same empire has nothing to do with the United States of America? The Middle Passage/Triangular trade of slaves/raw materials/manufactured goods that involved the British Empire and her colonies until 1809 had nothing to do with the United…

Some minds are blown when they find out that Brazil didn’t outlaw slavery until 1888.  It doesn’t look like bigotry really ever left that country either, based on their current President, Bolsonaro’s, statements concerning Black people there.

I have stopped being amazed by the number of grown men and women who are surprised when I explain that as someone of Jamaican ethnicity, I am indeed descended from slaves. I suppose in their mind they think that all those black people in the Caribbean, South America and Latin America were just hanging out on beaches…

Mon Dieu!

Quite a few of us Caribbean folk are Black and of Indian descent. It’s a thing. How is this so confusing? Of all the things to gaf about in such an important election.

...but it has everything to do with that idiot saying that her ancestry does not go back through slavery

Nothing like a couple of white Newsweek editors to tell us what is racist and what isn’t.  Who the fuck even reads Newsweek anymore?

Levin was trying to explain that Harris is not an African American and that her ancestry, “does not go back to slavery at all.”

I just meant in the sense that it didn’t stop Obama from winning two terms.

See also: Barack Obama. And he made it through just fine. 

Calling the Democrats radical leftists seems to be the only plan they have. It’s straight out of the 1968 playbook and the only history that they have shown any knowledge of. 

Well, we don’t have that kind of power! We’ll likely have criticisms of Harris and Biden over the next few months, but Trump getting voted out is our biggest concern right now. Whether we’ll have a legitimate election, however...

They’re already painting Kamala as a hypocrite (law and order record but will kowtow to radical leftists???) and I really don’t know if it’s going to actually stick. It all reads as pretty desperate.

It might, for sure, but I really do think that the GOP is scared right now. If all they’re hitting Kamala with is “radical leftist”—the same thing they’re hitting Joe with—I think they’re looking a little weak.

I wish we were voting for the right’s fever dream versions of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

It’s pretty hilarious. Like, I wish! But this is the only card they have to play. The desperation reeks:

Seemed the most sensible choice, especially considering the readiness to govern if something happes to Biden and the fact that Harris polled astonishingly well among the voters. I think only Warren polled better. In addition, she’s apparently been killing at fundraising. I also think she’s a really good balance to…

Oh man, she is gonna carve Pence up like a Christmas Ham in the debates.   I want her to double dog dare the skeevy little asshole to even try to back up his bullshit....just once.   She knows exactly what he is gonna try to shovel and she is gonna nail him to the core on it all.

Okay, so can we get a promise from Jezebel not to tank her and Biden both with the “Kamala is a cop” stuff?! Lots riding on this ticket, folks.

This is my shocked face. It was the obvious choice. It’s not the choice that progressives might have wanted but Biden is obviously trying to blunt the Trump Law&Order narrative. Besides, when President Biden has a stroke, or is otherwise incapacitated, I think she would be a fine President.