Janet Jackson appeared to question the fact that Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is Black. In an interview with The Guardian, 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…
