How does Kamala Harris, an African American, Tamil brahmin, raise her voice for BLM while staying mute on caste privilege?
FirstpostIt would be deeply unsettling to see her flaunt her genetic and cultural connection with India, without making a sincere effort to understand its various truths and perspectives — most especially because she is someone who spoke recently of America’s ‘moral reckoning with racism’. In a bid to argue that Kamala Harris’s brahmin-ness needed to be acknowledged — indeed, celebrated — as part of the ‘American success story’, Dhume revealed something vital about his own mind. The state chief minister also said, “Kamala Harris’s victory has made Tamil Nadu proud.” Harris was not born, did not live, study or work in Tamil Nadu, and probably does not know more than a few words of the language. It would be deeply unsettling to see her flaunt her genetic and cultural connection with this land, without making a sincere effort to understand its various truths and perspectives — most especially because she is someone who spoke recently of America’s ‘moral reckoning with racism’.
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