Donald Harris, the father of Sen. Kamala Harris, told a Jamaican website that he did not appreciate his daughter’s joke about smoking marijuana in reference to her Jamaican heritage,” Politico reports.
Said the elder Harris: “My dear departed grandmothers, as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics.”
He added: “Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.”
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