Kamala Harris\'s Jamaican Father Wasn\'t Amused By Her Marijuana Use Joke

Shortly after announcing her intentions to run for President in 2020, Kamala Harris appeared on New York City’s WWPR “The Breakfast Club” and asked to clarify her stance on legalizing marijuana...????(SOT HARRIS)??“They say you oppose legalizing weed??That’s not true.

And look, I joke about it, half jokingly...half my family’s from Jamaica, are you kidding me?”????During the interview, the California Senator also admitted to using marijuana in the past, but it was the remark about her Jamaican roots that drew the ire of one specific person...Kamala Harris’ father.????Donald Harris, who makes up the Jamaican part of Kamala’s background didn’t care for his daughter’s joke on that part of her heritage.????The elder Harris, an emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University sent an unsolicited statement to Jamaica Global Online…????...saying his deceased parents and grandparents must be spinning in their graves for having the family’s name connected “...jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics”????Going on to say… “Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.”????According to Politico, Harris’ parents divorced when she was young and while her father remained in her life, Kamala was raised by her mother.????(8)Harris’ campaign did not comment on her father’s statement.