Janet Jackson has recently offered comments about VP Kamala Harris’ race that have spark reactions.
In a recent interview, the 58-year-old Jackson said, Kamala Harris just has Indian heredity, subsequently, she wouldn’t become the first female black President if she is elected.
These sentiments are within the limits of fear inspired notions that some time back were promoted by the some people including Donald Trump.
In the interview, this issue came up, and when the Grammy-winning artist was asked about it, she said:
“She’s not Black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian
While the host of the interview was stunned about JJ’s stand, Jackson still maintained that Harris’ fatherly heritage is ‘White’ despite the fact that it is inaccurate.
“I was told that they discovered her father was White.” When asked, Janet Jackson did not seem sure whether the country was ready to have a woman of color at the helm of the state. She stated that whoever wins the elections, either way, is going to be “mayhem.”
Rather than what Jackson contends, Kamala Harris’ background and nationality have never involved disarray. Donald J. Harris, Harris’s father, is originally from Jamaica but moved to the United States to study economics at the University of California- Berkeley.
Her mom, Shyamala Gopalan also went to Berkeley from India and wedded Donald there. Harris has never claimed otherwise and those who have tried to present her otherwise have failed, as to be both South Asian and Black.
Donald Trump, had spread misinformation with respect to Harris’ ethnicity by making a few misleading speculations at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention held in Chicago recently.
He said, “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting the Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black, until several years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”
Harris went to Howard University, one of the most popular historically black colleges in the U.S. This is where she came to appreciate her biological heritage as a Black woman.
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In her memoir— ‘The Truths We Hold (2019)’, she elaborated on her growing up as a Black woman reflecting on her mother about the challenges associated with raising two Black daughters in America.
The White House biography of Harris also mentions that she was the first female Vice President of America, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American to hold that position.