Janet Jackson questioned whether Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris is Black in a new interview.
, which was published on Saturday, the reporter asked the pop star “where she stands on the forthcoming election,” with America “on the verge of voting in its first female Black president,” the author wrote.
“Well, you know what they supposedly said?” she asked the reporter. “She’s not Black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian.” It appeared that she was not aware that Harris is both Black and Indian, which the reporter explained to Jackson. “Her father’s white. That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days,” Jackson responded. “I was told that they discovered her father was white.”
That is, of course, false. Harris’ father, Donald J. Harris, was born in Browns Town, Jamaica and grew up in Jamaica. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was born in Chennai, India, and died in 2009. Harris’ parents divorced in 1971. Aspoints out, those who question Harris’ heritage “tend to be hardcore QAnon-adjacent, Trump-loving conspiracy theorists,” which the reporter concluded that Jackson was likely neither.
Hayley Williams Slams Donald Trump, Project 2025 at iHeartRadio Fest: 'Do You Want to Live in a Dictatorship?'during an appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists. “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black.
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