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Former US President Donald Trump claimed that he 'didn't know' Kamala Harris was 'Black', during a forum at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention in Chicago on Wednesday.
"Your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have labelled Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the first Black and Asian-American women to serve as Vice President, be on a major party ticket as a DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) hire," a journalist said. "Is that acceptable language to you? Will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to stop it?
"I have known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much. She was always of Indian heritage and she was promoting only Indian heritage, I did not 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," he replied.
"So, I do not know, is she Indian or is she Black?" he asked, before the journalist stated: "she has always identified as a Black woman."
"But you know what, I respect either one," Trump continued. "But she was Indian all of the way and all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person, and I think somebody should look into that too when you ask and continue in a very hostile, nasty tone."
Harris herself described the comments as 'divisiveness and disrespect' in a speech to a Black sorority on the same day in Houston.
The 59-year-old VP is set to face Trump in November following President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the election race. She is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, attending Howard University and was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority which are both historically Black institutions.
'I didn’t know she was Black!' -Trump on Kamala Harris at National Association of Black Journalists forum
Former US President Donald Trump claimed that he 'didn't know' Kamala Harris was 'Black', during a forum at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention in Chicago on Wednesday.
"Your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have labelled Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the first Black and Asian-American women to serve as Vice President, be on a major party ticket as a DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) hire," a journalist said. "Is that acceptable language to you? Will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to stop it?
"I have known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much. She was always of Indian heritage and she was promoting only Indian heritage, I did not 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," he replied.
"So, I do not know, is she Indian or is she Black?" he asked, before the journalist stated: "she has always identified as a Black woman."
"But you know what, I respect either one," Trump continued. "But she was Indian all of the way and all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person, and I think somebody should look into that too when you ask and continue in a very hostile, nasty tone."
Harris herself described the comments as 'divisiveness and disrespect' in a speech to a Black sorority on the same day in Houston.
The 59-year-old VP is set to face Trump in November following President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the election race. She is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, attending Howard University and was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority which are both historically Black institutions.
Mandatory Credits: Right Side Broadcasting Network
Former US President Donald Trump claimed that he 'didn't know' Kamala Harris was 'Black', during a forum at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention in Chicago on Wednesday.
"Your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have labelled Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the first Black and Asian-American women to serve as Vice President, be on a major party ticket as a DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) hire," a journalist said. "Is that acceptable language to you? Will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to stop it?
"I have known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much. She was always of Indian heritage and she was promoting only Indian heritage, I did not 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," he replied.
"So, I do not know, is she Indian or is she Black?" he asked, before the journalist stated: "she has always identified as a Black woman."
"But you know what, I respect either one," Trump continued. "But she was Indian all of the way and all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person, and I think somebody should look into that too when you ask and continue in a very hostile, nasty tone."
Harris herself described the comments as 'divisiveness and disrespect' in a speech to a Black sorority on the same day in Houston.
The 59-year-old VP is set to face Trump in November following President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the election race. She is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, attending Howard University and was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority which are both historically Black institutions.