To begin with, at a very base level - as a middle aged, heterosexual man who likes beautiful women - especially intelligent, articulate and confident women, I rather fancy Kamala Harris as a “Spicy lady”.
I’m not bigoted or racist. I do appreciate beauty
in women of all races, religions, nationalities etc.
and particularly in Moslem women!
Kamala is frankly “hot” and bears some resemblance to the socialite Padma Lakshmi, with whom she apparently shares an Iyer gene!
There are many stories about her floating around in the public realm - about how her alleged “dalliances” with powerful men lubricated her ascent in the “male dominated” American political firmament.
And, while I may not agree with all her stated political positions and espoused goals - Kamala Harris’s accomplishments alone make her definitely Presidential, certainly a lot more than Hilary Rodham Clinton.
In this video, she is seen cooking a Masala
Dosa with the Indian origin TV comedian Mindy Kaling.
Incidentally, Mindy Kaling’s brother allegedly secured admission into medical school by falsely claiming that he was “black” on his college application!
Of course, that was morally wrong, dishonest, unethical and completely unacceptable. But, as an Asian Indian American parent of college age kids who laments the growing disincentive for hard work, academic excellence and the even greater black, latino sense of entitlement
in the prevailing milieu of “minority victimhood” - I can see his perspective.
Mindy Kaling’s brother may have attempted to make a profound statement regarding the unfairness of racial considerations in American college admissions and diminishment of
the “American dream” especially for hard working,
successful immigrants - in a way, a repetition of
“reservation” politics for Indian Americans in their adopted country.
At the time, the conservative columnist Ann Coulter provocatively tweeted about it and that attracted a lot of hateful comments by African Americans against Indians.
Now, I used to like Ann Coulter - loved her humorous, conservative perspective and even agreed with many of her articulated positions - until I discovered that, at heart - she is actually a bat shit crazy Christist white supremacist xenophobe who is against ALL immigrants - not just illegal immigration per se.
There is a project among the far right xenophobic white nationalists nowadays to effectively channel African American anger away from white privilege and towards successful immigrant communities - particularly Indian Americans, who are portrayed as “stealing American jobs”, which is mostly untrue - because, simply stated - Indian Americans in general and Hindu Americans for sure - do not compete with other communities for low end blue collar jobs.
The goal of that project is obviously to escape White man’s guilt and sabotage the radical idea of “reparations” for slavery - which BTW, may be impractical.
I was still on Twitter at the time, so I had responded to Ann Coulter, saying:
- Even President Oreo was not really black; he is just half black. His father was an exchange student from Kenya, NOT a descendant of American slaves! Oreo is a sixth cousin of George W. Bush on his mother’s side! President Oreo’s Harvard education and White aristocratic upbringing are actually telling indicators of White liberal privilege!
- Mindy Kaling’s brother only ever claimed on his college application to be “black”. He never actually claimed to be “African American”. So, he was technically not incorrect. Just take one look at him. Simply based on skin color, he (like many Indians) is blacker than many blacks!
Coming back to the matter of Kamala Harris..
Hardcore, leftist BLM radicals do not like her - they made incendiary and highly derogatory comments calling her a “daughter of high class street shitters” (Brahmins from India) and NDAS (Not Descendant of American Slaves) because her African by race father hails from the Caribbean. This would never have been considered acceptable for anyone else.
Of course, I’m concerned by Kamala explicitly denying her Indian heritage (what to speak of Hindu roots) and exclusively self identifying ONLY as African American!
I have written elsewhere that her denial of her Hindu heritage is a form of hate speech! There are also nagging doubts about whether she hates the Hindu side of her ancestry because they possibly were not accommodating or approving of her mother’s relationship with her biological father, a black man?
This is all speculation. But, it could be political expediency and her professed racial identity part of an elaborately constructed ruse.
Kamala Harris’s statements on Kashmir were also troubling, but they were notably quite muted in comparison to crazy Bernie Sanders and the rabidly insane Christist Premila Jeypaul who are openly in bed with the Islamofascists with full frontal nudity!
While my instinct tells me that Mr. Trump will be re-elected POTUS by the silent majority of WASP voters who are quietly watching the BLM anarchy
and waiting for November - President “Sleepy Joe Biden” (Trump’s humorous descriptor for his electoral rival) would be just a tottering, demented, vegetative figure head. The real power would be concentrated in the hands of the far left radical Democrats.
In that scenario, Vice President Kamala Harris - the de facto President would be relatively reassuring.
At least, she is not explicitly dedicated to destroying America, the established international order or breaking the Indian republic!
She would be approximately as bad or about the same as President Oreo or Clinton for India, not much worse.
Ultimately, India and Hindus need to stand up for themselves and make India the third pole in the global order - definitely make her defenses impregnable and her sovereignty inviolable by any
hostile power.
Some “woke” Desi liberals, back home in India, of all places were extremely concerned that Hindu Americans were trending “Is Kamala Harris Hindu?” on Google search.
Personally, I did a “Kamala Harris sexy” Google image search because I know that she is NOT Hindu, not really African, probably not anything specific really - just a cynical politician dedicated to her own ascent to power.
On the other hand - Why shouldn’t Hindu Americans inquire about her religious beliefs? And, why shouldn’t we be concerned about what is good for India AND for the USA? The USA is far too grounded in religion (Christianity) despite all the protestations about “founding fathers ideals”, “freedom of religion” etc. to not question the faith of those running for public office. It is (was?) a great country despite Christianity - not because of it, since approximately half the population of Americans are honest, hard working people for whom religious bigotry is secondary to their work ethic.
Even crazy Bernie Sanders was persecuted within the Democrat party itself for being Jewish! [He is actually a “Messianic Jew”, i.e. a Christist who kind of acknowledges his Jewish roots, while worshipping the mythical “Palestinian” Yesu corpse and believing in cruci-fiction (pun intended)! ]
India is the spiritual homeland (MatruBhoomi, PitruBhoomi, DharmaBhoomi, PunyaBhoomi) for Hindu Americans and always will be - just like Israel is the holy land for Jewish Americans.
Hindu Americans are not second class citizens of the USA! What is ok for the Jews, Arabs, Catholics is ok for Hindus also.
Ideally, Tulsi Gabbard is the best candidate that a Hindu American would support for POTUS (and easily the most sincere and accomplished one).
But, White (or any other colored) Christist Hinduphobic America is inherently just too bigoted to ever allow anything remotely like that.
I would very much like to be proven wrong on that count. Therefore, regrettably that is pure utopia.
Unfortunately, even Tulsi was compelled to rally to the Jihadist Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s defense when the latter was attacked by White conservatives over her infamous, ignorant, insensitive, atrocious and idiotic comment along the lines: “SOME PEOPLE DID SOMETHING IN NEW YORK ON 9/11”.
BTW, on a light hearted note - my friend, an Iyer has an interesting inside story about how in the past, Kamala supposedly called up her Mausi (maternal aunt) in Madras and asked her to offer 108 coconuts
as Thanksgiving to Lord Ganesha upon being elected to the US Senate :)
As someone who believes that, on balance, POTUS Donald Trump is a friend of India and the Hindus - I believe that Kamala Harris is amenable to reason and is someone that India can do business with.
More than a decade ago, when Nikki Haley was elected Governor of South Carolina - I had lamented that she is a converted Christist - yet idiotic Hindus were donating to her campaign.
Back then, @NizhalYodha had corrected me that, unlike the rabid evangelical Hinduphobe “Uncle Tom” Bobby Jindal - Nikki’s conversion to the corpse worshipping cult was superficial and politically expedient.
She is essentially atheist/agnostic and cynically goes to Mandirs, Gurudwaras, Churches etc. for fund raising without believing in any of their dogmas.
(not that Hinduism has any particular dogma, BTW).
Mr. Trump actively lobbied for Hindu American votes back in 2016. His charming daughter, sons, daughters in law visited Hindu Mandirs in swing states to canvass for Hindu support, in addition to his catchy slogan “Ab ki baar, Trump Sarkar” that went viral on SM :)
The Trump campaign should seriously consider countering “sexy” with “sexy”, i.e. inject
some style, spice, flavor and dynamism into his 2020 Presidential campaign by dumping the boring, jaded old squarehead Mike Pence and choosing Nikki Haley as his running mate!
That would a formidable ticket and a win win proposition for women, “women of color”, “Desis” etc.
(BTW, I do believe that Nikki Haley has a legitimate claim to have popularized the “sexy librarian” look in contemporary American politics - even more than Sarah Pailin).
2 comments:
from nizhalyoddha:
1. agreed that kamala's a good looking woman. i was looking at the video where tulsi gabbard massacred her during a presidential debate, and both are good looking, though i prefer tulsi a shade, partly because she's younger and partly because she comes across as more sincere.
2. kamala chose expediency at all costs. even tho she was apparently brought up to some extent by her indian grandparents after her parents divorced, she wisely (for her political career) chose to position and market herself as black, so that she could get the BLM, woke, victim-card votes. instead of going to UC berkeley, she apparently chose to go to a black school. in the many years i lived in the SF bay area, not once did she appear at any indian-american event. reminded of bobby jindal and peter mathews, who both tried to get out money despite being anti-hindu.
3. hindus should realize she's a shrewd woman, and she'll only do what's expedient (eg. dating 60+ willie brown when she was 29). do not burn bridges with her (just in case they win), but neither should you give her your money or your votes. (however, i am pretty sure lots of silicon valley HINO americans will give her both). she'll do another dosa making charade as she seeks your money, but she knows she is better off pursuing the far-left, islamist and crazy votes, so not much hope there, but yes, it's still a good idea to reach out to her and promise votes and money (with no intention of giving either).
Exactly my thoughts. Don't burn bridges with
Kamala, pay lipservice and engage in dialogue. Personally, I will not donate a single Dollar to them. I'm a fiscal conservative and have worked hard to earn my money. If I win 10 million dollars in a lottery tomorrow, I intend to donate 90% of that to Hindu causes back in India!
However, there are a lot of HINO's like you said @NizhalYodha and a lot of self promoting upstarts who may seek some favours or may be running for some small time public office - who will donate money to the those who are allied with anti Hindu forces.
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