WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? (Post #2, by Azizi Powell, July 30, 2024)
"What's Up With That?" is a periodic pancocojams series.These brief "What's Up With That?" posts insist of my editorial note/s along with some other information, comments, and/or pancocojams blog link/s or other internet link/s.
What's up with the recurrence of the place name "Jamaica" in the 2024 United States Presidential election?
A. Former United States President Donald J. Trump was born at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York and grew up in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens, New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
"Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
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Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York City,[1] the fourth child of Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. Trump grew up with older siblings Maryanne, Fred Jr., and Elizabeth and younger brother Robert in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens, and attended the private Kew-Forest School from kindergarten through seventh grade.[2][3][4]"...
****B. Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for United States President is of Afro Jamaican and South Asian (Indian) ancestry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Kamala_Harris
"Donald J. Harris is the father of Kamala Harris. He is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, originally from Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Of Afro-Jamaican descent, Harris was born on August 23, 1938, to Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan)[19][20] and Oscar Joseph Harris.[21] He grew up in the Orange Hill area of Saint Ann Parish, near Brown's Town.[22][23] Harris received a Bachelor of Arts from the University College of the West Indies in 1960. In 1963 he came to the United States to earn a PhD from University of California, Berkeley which he completed in 1966.[24] He met his future wife, Shyamala Gopalan through the civil rights movement.[25] Harris was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1966 to 1967 and at Northwestern University from 1967 to 1968. He moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an associate professor in 1968. In 1972, he joined the faculty of Stanford University as a professor of economics. He directed the Consortium Graduate School of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies in 1986–1987. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil in 1990 and 1991 and in Mexico in 1992. In 1998, he retired from Stanford becoming a professor emeritus."
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I could say that the fact Donald Trump was raised in Queens, New York was a prediction that he would compete with and be beaten by a Queen (i.e. a great woman) in November 5, 2024, But- although I believe that will come true- I won't go that far in my What's Up With That" musing.
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On a related topic, here's information about United District Court Judge Tanya Chutkin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Chutkan
"Tanya Sue Chutkan (born July 5, 1962) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a U.S. district judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
She is the presiding judge over the criminal trial of former U.S. president Donald Trump over his alleged attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, including the events leading up to the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Early life and education
Chutkan was born on July 5, 1962, in Kingston, Jamaica.[1] Chutkan has a younger brother, Norman, and a younger sister, Robynne, both of whom are physicians. Her father Winston Chutkan is an Indo-Jamaican doctor, and her mother Noelle is an Afro-Jamaican who was one of the leading dancers at the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica.[2][3][4]"...
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Here's a comment I just happened upon that refers to Kamala Harris as a Queen (in the sense that all Black women are referred to as "queens" and not with the definition "female ruler of a nation").
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEIDp5SF0zs "Trump Goes Completely Insane As Polls Show Him Getting Crushed By Harris", by Farron Balanced, July 30, 2024
@eustacedelsol528, July 30, 2024
"They are all scared of this black Queen she is inteligent strong and a black Woman.".
In the context of this pancocojams "What's Up With That" series, the question "What's up with that?" should be interpreted as calling attention to some coincidences, or something else that is note worthy and saying "Check this out. "What does that mean?"
ReplyDeleteFor instance, what, if anything, does it mean that Donald J Trump, JD Vance, and Kamala Harris's father Donald J Harris all have the name "Donald". Maybe it doesn't mean anything at all. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but if it's not weird, isn't it kinda spooky?
Sometimes some things, like these first names as mentioned above or like the last name that some people in the news have make me feel that the universe is playing games with us, hopefully for a good reason or good reasons
You get what I mean?