Kamala Harris and the ‘Blood Conundrum’

America’s obsession makes her black

Slavery and segregation were supposedly abolished in the US by President Abraham Lincoln with the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. But the obsession with “blood” carries on, not least among those media organs such as the New York Times which see themselves as liberal and anti-racist seemingly cannot get away from the assumpt…