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Malia Cohen

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Malia Cohen

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Malia Cohen is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 04, 2022 and November 05, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “Malia Cohen is a black person with the last name Cohen”; “It’s a damn shame that Malia Cohen ended up as the Dem on the ballot”. It most often appears alongside California, Clara Collier, LA Times.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: November 04, 2022
  • Last seen: November 05, 2022

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My California Ballot 2022
November 04, 2022 · Original source
Malia Cohen is a black person with the last name Cohen. How did this happen? Apparently not by marriage - her husband has a different name. I eventually found this article on black Cohens, which says that about 4,000 of the 87,000 Cohens in America are black. Some of them are descended from a Cohen in South Carolina who married a black woman in the 1800s, and others are descended from a Cohen who was a pirate in the Caribbean (really!) Most are not Jewish. I can’t tell if Malia is Jewish - I listened to the first few minutes of this talk she gave at a synagogue, and although she sounds extremely at home there and pronounces her Hebrew surprisingly well, she also mentions she’s the daughter of a pastor, so I’m guessing no. She was formerly a San Francisco Supervisor, but I will try not to hold that against her. Her opponent accuses her of literally going to Venezuela to study socialism, but I already assume every San Francisco Supervisor did that.
Inline links: this article on black Cohens, this talk she gave at a synagogue,, literally going to Venezuela to study socialism
Highlights From The Comments On My California Ballot
November 05, 2022 · Original source
It's a damn shame that Malia Cohen ended up as the Dem on the ballot instead of Ron Galperin, the LA Controller, who was running on an "abundance liberalism" type platform. He's been harshly critical of how LA is wasting affordable housing funds, and his ideas of what they should be doing about it are good. (He just hasn't had cooperation from the Mayor's office or the city's legislative branch.) He'd be a solid future candidate for Gov.
Re Malia Cohen, I did a little digging. Her grandfather had the absolutely priceless name "Bishop Cohen" (https://casetext.com/case/cohen-v-cohen-in-re-estate-of-cohen). He was a longshoreman from Galveston. His own father was Frank Cohen, a farmer originally from Alabama. When he died in Galveston in 1939, his widow named his father as "Henry Cohen," but wasn't sure where he was born. We can find Henry in the 1880 Federal Census, a Coffeeville, Alabama laborer (probably in a sawmill).
Inline links: https://casetext.com/case/cohen-v-cohen-in-re-estate-of-cohen