https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/01/kamala-harris-indian-american-black-racial-identity-donald-trump/
‘Failed The Community’: Indian-Americans Sound Off On Kamala Harris’ ‘Submerged’ Indian Heritage, Focus On Black ID
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Indian-Americans are sounding off on Vice President Kamala Harris’ alleged attempts to downplay her Indian heritage in favor of her Jamaican side of the family.
Less than a week ago, as Harris entered the presidential race, the New York Times wrote that the vice president’s Indian heritage is “little advertised.” Harris, with an Indian mother and black Jamaican father, has long been touted as a historic figure breaking glass ceilings. But some Indian-Americans told the Caller they feel Harris’ Indian identity is highlighted only when it’s “convenient” for her.
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“While she might want to lean into her ethnic background when it is politically convenient to do so, the reality is that it does not matter. What matters are her policy positions, which would be a nightmare for most Americans and especially for the Indian-American community,” Akash Chougule, an Indian-American conservative commentator, told the Caller.
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“She’s made very clear that she does not look highly upon entrepreneurship. She does not look highly upon meritocracy. The administration supports affirmative action, which harms Indian-American applicants to college. You can go down the list and see that regardless of the identity politics that Democrats and the media want to play, it’s clear that she does not value the things that have made the American dream possible for us, and that’s because unlike many on the left, most Indian-Americans aren’t interested in competing in the victimhood Olympics,” Chougule said.
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“I would tell you, the Indian-American community cares a lot about education, prioritizes security, and I think on both those fronts, Kamala Harris has failed the community that she’s now de-emphasizing in her own past,” he continued.
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“As an Indian-American we’ve left identity politics and this hierarchy of power structure, of people choosing the leaders for the rest of the people to follow. We left that behind from the countries that we immigrated from. This is the reason why we all came to America. It was about freedom. It’s the individual liberty and pursuit of happiness and a free Republic,” he told the Caller.
“I feel it’s glued to whoever the segment of the population is she’s trying to woo, if it’s going to be Indian, then she wants to raise money, she’s going to highlight her Indianness,” he added. “And if she wants to get a large base of black Americans, she’s going to play her black identity.”
“To me, I think who’s more able and capable, who’s going to serve the people of America, is far more important.”