Janet Jackson calls into question Kamala’s race: ‘She’s not black’

Singer-songwriter Janet Jackson raised questions about Kamala Harris’ racial identity during a recent interview, claiming that the vice president is not black.

During an interview with The Guardian, Janet was asked about the possibility of the US electing its first black female president. However, Janet pushed back on this characterization of Harris as black.



“Well, you know what they supposedly said?” Jackson asked. “She’s not black, that’s what I heard, that she’s Indian.”

“Her father’s white, that’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days. I was told that they discovered her father was white,” she added.

When asked whether she thought America was ready for a woman of color as president, Jackson said she doesn’t know.

“Honestly, I don’t want to answer that because I really truthfully don’t know. I think either way it goes is going to be mayhem,” she responded.

Jackson’s remarks follow similar comments made by former President Donald Trump in July at the National Association of Black Journalists convention. There, Trump argued that Harris had emphasized her Indian heritage early in her career but shifted to presenting herself as black more recently.

“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said in July. “I didn’t know she was black until a number of 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?”

“I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went — she became a black person. I think somebody should look into that too," Trump continued.

Vice President Harris’ father, Donald J. Harris, is a Jamaican-American professor at Stanford, and her mother is of Indian descent. Harris has faced criticism from some for allegedly identifying with certain aspects of her ancestry depending on the situation. Recently, she was accused of adopting a regional accent while speaking in Detroit, only for it to disappear during a subsequent event in Pittsburgh the same day.