CNN’s Lemon Says Kamala Harris Isn’t African-American: ‘Jamaica Is Not America!’

‘Jamaica is not America’

EXCERPT:

LEMON: "Okay, that's fine. I agree with that. [crosstalk] No, no, no. But is she African-American, there’s a difference. No one is trying to take anything away from her. I think you’re falling into a trap with that. All she had to do was say, I’m black, but I’m not African-American. That’s it."

RYAN "I’m not falling into a trap. Let me finish, hold on. When she goes down her lineage, many Africans landed in Jamaica and all these other Caribbean islands."

LEMON: "Jamaica is not America."

RYAN: "But she is a black woman. She was born here — "

LEMON: "Jamaica did not come out of Jim Crow. I’m just saying."

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