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Kamala Harris’s Blackness Isn’t Up for Debate

Her identity and motives are being unfairly challenged on all sides.
Source: Leah Millis / Reuters

I never would have put Snoop and Tupac Shakur on the list of things that could potentially harm California Senator Kamala Harris’s presidential bid. But this week, two of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time unwillingly played a part in the latest attack on Harris’s blackness, which came after the Democrat’s appearance on the popular morning-radio show, The Breakfast Club.

Harris engaged in a 40-plus-minute wide-ranging conversation with hosts Charlamagne the God, Angela Yee, and DJ Envy, detailing

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