Singer, actress and much-beloved superstar Janet Jackson found herself on the wrong side of a social media dragging over the weekend when she was quoted in an interview published by The Guardian Saturday parroting Donald Trump’s conspiracy theory talking points about Vice President Kamala Harris’ Blackness.
When asked where she stands on the possibility of America electing its first Black female president, Michael Jackson’s little sister gave the most disappointing answer ever.
“Well, you know what they supposedly said?” she asked journalist Nosheen Iqbal. “She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian.”
Iqbal gently pushed back, saying, “Well, she’s both.”
“Her father’s white. That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days,” Jackson replied. “I was told that they discovered her father was white.”
Donald Trump has openly questioned Kamala Harris’ Blackness
In case you missed it, Donald Trump very publicly questioned Kamala Harris’ Blackness during his infamous NABJ panel. He did the same thing with former President Barack Obama, questioning whether or not Obama was actually born in the United States and eligible to run for the highest office in the country.
It is both racist and insulting that Trump resorts to these tactics.
Kamala Harris has often repeated how she was raised by her Indian mother to be a Black woman.
In her 2019 book The Truths We Hold, Harris wrote, “My mother understood very well that she was raising two Black daughters.”
Questioning the Blackness of a woman who went to an HBCU, pledged a Black Greek letter organization and has made her Blackness a huge part of her platform is a decided choice.
Donald Trump repeatedly using that as a talking point is intentional disinformation, and Janet Jackson falling for it is, again, one of the most disappointing things to have happened in the last week.
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