Race Is a Choice

Race Is a Choice
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks while touring a water treatment plant in Oakland, Calif., on April 5, 2021. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Kenny Xu
Christian Watson
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Kamala Harris had a choice, being the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants. On the campaign trail in the 2020 election cycle, she often presented herself as black—emphasizing her studies at the historically black Howard University and saying to Joe Biden in the Democratic Primary debates: “My neighbor, her parents told her she couldn’t play with us because we were black.”
Kenny Xu is the president of Color Us United, founded to fight government, education, and media racialization of America. He is the author of the books “An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy” and “School of Woke: How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them.”
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