“ ‘My dear departed grandmothers ... as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not, with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics.’ ”

That’s Donald Harris, the Jamaican-born father of Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and a professor of economics at Stanford, reportedly sounding off this week in a statement to Jamaica Global Online about his daughter’s interview on the New York Breakfast Club radio show.

Kamala Harris, who admitted to smoking pot — “I did inhale,” she said in winking reference to a notorious statement Bill Clinton made a quarter-century ago — was also asked by the radio host about accusations that she has, in the past, opposed legalization efforts.