Laura Loomer: “Kamala Harris is not Black.” ... “I have a weave in my hair so maybe I am Blacker than Kamala Harris.”
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Media Matters recently documented how Laura Loomer has made a career in MAGA politics through attention-grabbing political stunts and extreme bigotry. Popular Information has also documented the close ties and mutual admiration between former President Donald Trump and Loomer. Here is yet another example.
Citation From the August 14, 2024, edition of Loomer Unleashed streamed on Rumble
LAURA LOOMER (HOST): Kamala Harris is not Black. They want to convince themselves that she is. We have a pretend Black woman who is now the Democrat nominee, and they're saying that we have to divest ourselves from whiteness. I mean, why are we trying to gin up animosity? I get along just fine with Black people. Okay? The woman who does my hair is Black, and she's a conservative.
She's a Trump supporter. And when she does my hair, she always talks to me. Right? Because I'm conservative, and she loves — people just assume that she's, you know, she's a Jamaican girl. She's really sweet. She's really nice. She does a really good job on my hair. And, she'll be like, oh, so, you know, what can you tell me now? What's new with President Trump? Oh, I just love President Trump or, you know, she watches a lot of InfoWars and Alex Jones, and she always waits and does my hair when, you know, it's just us because generally speaking, like, a lot of her clientele is more Democrat or, you know, doing hair —
I get my hair done at a Black salon, actually. I will say this because I have extensions, and I'm not going pretend like my hair is all real. I have extensions in my hair, just to be honest. And so, I don't need to pretend and be like, oh, yeah. I was like, you know, I woke up like this is all my natural hair. Most of my hair is my hair, but I do wear a couple extensions, and I do it for fullness. My hair is the exact length that it is. My natural hair is as long as it is, but I do have one row of extensions.
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I guarantee you that when I go and I get my hair done in a couple weeks when she redoes my extensions for me, I'm going to play her this clip, and I'm going to ask her what she thinks about this Black woman telling people to divest themselves from whiteness.
Black people think that this shit's crazy too. Like, I don't know why they think that this is appealing to all Black people. I know Black people who think it's so stupid when they hear other Black people calling for reparations. Okay? So when I go to the Black hair salon and I get my weft, my weave, basically, tightened in my hair because you have to get it tightened every six weeks, I'm going ask these Black women in the salon what they think about this woman calling for white people to divest themselves from whiteness.
And maybe I'll record it. I don't know. Maybe I'll record it and get their reactions, and then I'll play it six weeks from now when I get my weave tightened. And then I can, you know, show you all what they think at the Black Hair Salon.
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LOOMER: I guess I do. I have a weave in my hair, so maybe I am Blacker than Kamala Harris. I don't know.