Maybe it’s because she is light-skinned with straighten highlighted hair, but Kamala Harris seems very concerned that people don’t know she is black. To remedy that she intends on announcing that she’s running for president in 2020 on Martin Luther King Day. Just in case people still don’t get it, she made a video showing off just how black she is. Iowa Rep. Steve King was kicked in the nuts over showing how white he is, but Kamala Showing off her blackness is empowering because that’s the way these things work.
One nation under a groove
Gettin’ down just for the funk of itpic.twitter.com/C2kZrCaphy— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 15, 2019
In a video she made for Late Night with Stephen Colbert, Harris was supposed to be listing some of her favorite songs. Instead, she used it as platform to showcase her “black girl magic.” In the codeswitching of the century, Harris was transformed from progressive idiot Senator into an Oakland hood rat.
Harris listed her favorite songs for a variety of occasions like dancing, working out, etc…but that really wasn’t the purpose of this video. She started off reinforcing her black street cred by dropping her knowledge on how to jam at a cookout, because for some strange reason black people think they are the only ones who have barbecues. Next she made sure everyone knew that she went to historically black college Howard University, the blackest of the black HBCUs. She also didn’t let anyone forget that she is from Oakland, the blackest of the all California cities.
Of course almost all of the music she picked was from black rap and R&B artists, with the one exception being Lady Gaga. For almost every song she picked, she did a little dance and even tried to sing. At least she helped dispel the myth that all black people are good singers and dancers, but I don’t think that was her intention.
Making this shameless pandering completely weird is that after she picked a song, she’d look off camera and laugh like a crazy person. I don’t what jokes she thought she was telling, but she was definitely the only one in on it.
The sad thing is, for every step forward in proving how black she is, she’d take two steps back. Liking a Lady GaGa song isn’t the blackest thing in the world and neither is what she does during her morning workouts. Rather than listen to music, she says she watches Morning Joe on MSNBC. Cohosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are literally two of the whitest people around.
She maybe got an indication that her case for her own blackness wasn’t going as planned so when she had to name her favorite song from her childhood she picked “Young, Gifted, and Black” by Aretha Franklin.
Since all of this is part of her lame attempt to become the next President of the United States, she named her most presidential song as “One Nation Under A Groove” by Funkadelic. She then gave a tone-deaf rendition of the song and promised there was more to come, whatever that means.
The saddest thing about this video is that despite actually being black, Kamala Harris is very bad a being black. This comes off as sincere as Hillary Clinton’s fake black accent or her claim that she carries hot sauce in her purse. Making matters worse, this video is one of dozens of things that disqualify her from ever becoming POTUS. It’s simply an embarrassment.
Since Kamala Harris was using music to try to prove her blackness, let’s take a look at an artist who had the same problem. When Whitney Houston first came out the record company packaged her as a white artist who made Tiffany and Debbie Gibson look ethnic. Whitney wasn’t happy about this and want to assert her black roots, so she went out married the blackest guy she could find in Bobby Brown. The next thing you know, she was addicted to crack, got her ass beat, and wound up dead in a bathtub.
