“It’s disgusting and we have to call it out when we see it,” Joe Biden said of recent online attacks that claim Sen. Kamala Harris is not ‘American Black.’
A number of hopefuls for the Democratic nomination for president found common ground Saturday as they defended rival Sen. Kamala Harris against online allegations that she is not an"American Black."
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who clashed with Harris at Thursday's Democratic debate in Miami after she criticized his position five decades ago against school busing, said the social media attacks against the senator from California were clear echoes of"birtherism." "Birtherism," promoted by some Republicans, including Donald Trump before he assumed the presidency, was a movement that denied former President Barack Obama was a natural-born U.S. citizen, implying he was ineligible to be president.
"The same forces of hatred rooted in 'birtherism ' that questioned @BarackObama's American citizenship, and even his racial identity, are now being used against Senator @KamalaHarris," Biden."It’s disgusting and we have to call it out when we see it. Racism has no place in America." Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, was defended Saturday by many of her Democratic rivals for president after allegations compared to "birtherism" appeared online.U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, also compared the online attacks, which claim Harris is not a black American because her father is Jamaican, to"birtherism," whose proponents claimed incorrectly that Obama was born in Kenya."We have a responsibility to call out this birtherism and the continued spread of misinformation.
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