Kamala Harris

Quote: AZDuffman

Please explain this to members of her own party who want reparations for slavery.

I explain nothing, because that's not a topic I care about. And her slavery was in Jamaica, not here.

This whole thing is just ridiculous. OG is just ridiculous. DG is especially ridiculous.

Quote: AZDuffman

Please explain this to members of her own party who want reparations for slavery.

Bingo! Liberals of course want it both ways.

I see NO reason not to vote for Kamala if she is a descendant of a slave owner. Nor no reason to vote for her, either. It should have NO impact on her candidacy.

Only impact would be to her character IF she was proven to lie about it.

Quote: SOOPOO

Bingo! Liberals of course want it both ways.

Reparations have no support except from extremists
Aren't your sons voting for Harris
No doubt they don't support reparations
I don't think anybody on the board supports reparations

this article is worth looking at

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/08/politics/kamala-harris-browns-town-jamaica-dg/

From the same link.

It's called Epigenetics.


Most might think the genetic trauma is only with slave families, hence reparations.

But there would also be trauma associated with enslaving human beings too, in a form of extreme genetic guilt manifesting in unpredictable behavior like hypocrisy, or in Harris' case, potential alcoholism and/or blackouts (hearsay).


Imagine if you were Harris agreeing to sign reparations for slaves, while she carries the genetics that causes it (not only caused).



"Descendants bear the imprints of ancestral traumas"

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Brian Dias noticed something unusual about a group of lab mice he was breeding at Emory University: They were afraid of the smell of acetophenone, even though they’d never been exposed to it before.

Dias was studying how ancestral environments leave imprints on descendant generation. He administered a mild shock to a group of mice whenever they were given the scent of acetophenone, five times a day for three days. A week and a half later, he had those mice mate with females. Their offspring grew up with a high sensitivity to acetophenone, despite having no experience with the compound. The following generation was also unusually skittish around acetophenone. Dias also discovered that all three generations devoted a higher-than-average number of olfactory receptors to detecting the odor compared to mice in a control group.

The mice were inheriting the fears of their ancestors. “Descendants bear the imprints of ancestral traumas,” he says.

The study of alterations in gene expression caused by environmental factors and experience is called epigenetics. Epigenetic modifications switch specific genes on and off, often through methylation of the cytosine nucleotide. Even though the DNA sequences themselves don’t change, epigenetic changes can sometimes be passed down to offspring. The extent of this inheritance is debated: The University of Massachusetts molecular biologist Oliver Rando asked in a Nature article just last year “why hasn’t this been obvious to all the brilliant researchers in the past hundred years of genetics?”

But epigenetic modifications may be passed on in a variety of ways. A study led by Frances Champagne in 2006 found that neglectful mothering in rats caused DNA methylation of estrogen receptors in female offspring. When the neglected female rats grew up and had babies of their own, their decreased estrogen levels caused them to neglect their newborns, just as their mothers had. This was inheritance through behavior, rather than direct DNA-to-DNA transmission.

Even when a hero does appear to exert agency it is only to ultimately reveal his powerlessness.

Perhaps the most infamous historical example of epigenetics in humans comes from an episode at the end of World War II called the Dutch Hunger Winter. In the winter of 1944-45 Germany created a man-made famine in the Netherlands. The Dutch kept careful records of families and births during the Hunger Winter, and were able to track the effects of that period of starvation on pregnant women. “Researchers followed their descendants through time and what they see is that there are certain windows in pregnancy where if mom is starved, the baby is at higher risk later in life for obesity and Type 2 diabetes,” says Barry Starr, a geneticist at Stanford University. “It’s almost as if that [period of starvation] has caused a change in the genetic pattern to need more food.”
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Remember in July when it was looking like Biden would drop out, and some people said they should nominate Kamala because it would make the righties go absolutely feral with their racism?

This thread is a pretty good example of that lately!

Biblical references at least go to four generations but don't exclude more generations.

Like for example Biden, his behavior of sponsoring the law that jailed predominantly blacks for crack in 1992, shows he's still likely under a genetic slavery curse.

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What does the Bible say about breaking generational curses?

https://www.gotquestions.org/generational-curses.html

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Quote: AZDuffman

Please explain this to members of her own party who want reparations for slavery.

A person can't knowingly justify supporting a person from a slave-owning family, of course unless they were of that persuasion.

Quote: DoubleGold

A person can't knowingly justify supporting a person from a slave-owning family, of course unless they were of that persuasion.

In the pantheon of stupid DG posts, this one is just rich. Of course, I don’t read the majority of them, as they never make any sense and are just too long to tolerate.

Quote: AZDuffman

Please explain this to members of her own party who want reparations for slavery.

Republicans worried about reparations are like worrying that Trump will suddenly become an honest man. And tell them the truth.