Donald Trump, who kicked off his political career by lying about Barack Obama’s birth certificate, has never exactly been the most sensitive man when it comes to matters of race. But he’s gotten even weirder whenever he talks about the topic regarding his opponent, Kamala Harris.
The vice president’s father is Black and from Jamaica, while her late mother was Indian-American. Harris’s background, in terms of this, has never been a secret, nor has she ever been dishonest about it, during her long career as a public figure.
Yes, there were headlines after Harris’ election to the Senate that she was the first Indian-American U.S. Senator, but numerous other headlines proclaimed her the second Black woman elected to the Senate and the first Black, Indian-American, and female vice president.
She is a mixed-race individual, and most people are comfortable with and understand that concept.
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But it appears Trump is still having trouble with it. He appeared this week for an interview with Patrick Bet-David, and the topic came up.
Trump to Patrick Bet-David on Kamala Harris: “They have a woman who’s black. Although you would say she’s Indian. But she’s Black. But a lot of people didn’t know. Which is true.” pic.twitter.com/yOSBWb9Sap
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2024
“They have a woman who’s black. Although you would say she’s Indian. But she’s Black. But a lot of people didn’t know. Which is true,” Trump says in the interview.
“I learned about it just a couple months ago,” Bet-David offers, believing up until that point that Harris was Indian. Then, even more strangely, he adds “if you follow baseball, Sammy Sosa, kinda, you have to sometimes respect people, they change, so I thought maybe she was doing a Sammy Sosa.”
Sosa is a retired baseball player, of Dominican nationality, who following his playing career appeared to have undergone some type of skin-lightening treatment and now looks very different from he did while he played. But Harris has not done anything to change her appearance or skin color, nor has she changed anything about how she identifies herself.
It’s somewhat baffling that someone would believe that Harris was entirely Indian-American. Harris does not have an Indian-sounding last name. She is a native of Oakland, she went to Howard University, an historically Black college, and belonged to Alpha Kappa Alpha, an historically Black sorority. And she has clearly identified herself by her complete ethnic background for her entire time as a public figure. The idea that she has concealed or changed her race is completely imaginery.
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— Chels 🏈 ✨🎙️ (@ChelsIsRight) October 17, 2024
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