Actress Amanda Seales On Kamala’s Racism Denial: Makes Those Who Support Her Look Dumb, Embarrassing Photo: Amanda Seales arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Harriet" at the Orpheum Theatre on Oct. 29, 2019. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)/ KamalaHarris listens to a question at a campaign event in Portsmouth, N.H., Feb. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Actress Amanda Seales is not too happy with Vice President Kamala Harris these days.
Harris recently agreed with Sen. Tim Scott who claimed that America wasn’t a racist country during his Republican rebuttal of President Joe Biden’s first joint address to Congress. During a subsequent interview with “Good Morning America,” Harris said “First of all, no, I don’t think America is a racist country. But we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country, and its existence today.”
Harris added that white supremacist domestic terrorism is a leading threat to U.S. national security. “These are issues that we must confront, and it doesn’t help to heal our country, to unify us as a people, to ignore the realities of that,” she said.
Harris’ comments on racism upset many, including Seales, show went to social media and vented in a video message, “Everyone knows that’s bullshit…That was dumb and embarrassing and she embarrassed everyone who supported her.”
Twitter chimed in.
Stan FitzgeraldNY @StanGF150 tweeted, “Amanda is 100% right. Dumb and embarrassing”
National politics reporter at The New York Times Astead, @AsteadWesley, added, “You’ll never get a national politican — D or R — to bluntly indict America as a “racist country.” But worth acknowledging the mainstream Dem position here is completely nonsensical. ‘We are not a racist country but founded on a racist practice that produced a racist system'”
Seales has supported Harris in the past. During the 2020 presidential campaign, the former “The Real” co-host shot back at Harris distractions who claimed the former senator wasn’t “Black enough” due to her mother’s Indian heritage. Harris’s father is from Jamaica.
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Seales said at the time, “This is not the time to start with your Kamala Harris hate. We gotta get real bottom-line focus right now. We can’t have detracting, we can’t have shading. … That ain’t it. Everybody gotta get on board,” Rolling Out reported.
