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Trump Falsely Claims Harris Hasn’t Always Identified as Black
https://time.com/7006139/donald-trump-kamala-harris-black-indian/
Former President Donald Trump used his turn before the nation’s largest professional association of Black journalists to question the racial identity of his rival for the White House this fall, telling a shocked National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago that Vice President Kamala Harris “happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black.”
It took Trump all of 10 days running in a head-to-head against the first woman and first incumbent of Black and Indian-American heritage to openly question her background.
“I don’t know. Is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said, raising questions that echoed the ex-President’s persistent and discredited questions about former President Barack Obama’s place of birth. “I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t because she was Indian all the way and then all of the sudden she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person.”
Harris has always identified as a product of a multicultural family, being born of Jamaican and Indian immigrants. Her single mother, a Hindu adherent, embraced Black culture. Harris went on to study at Howard University, a historically Black university, where she joined Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc., one of the nation’s preeminent historically Black greek-letter organizations. She is slated to address a Black greek-letter organization later Wednesday in Houston.
“Today’s tirade is simply a taste of the chaos and division that has been a hallmark of Trump’s MAGA rallies this entire campaign,” Harris Campaign spokesman Michael Tyler said in a statement.
Trump’s trolling was as ugly as ever, but it was hardly surprising. This sort of red-meat attack is what has powered his campaigns dating to early days of 2015, when he leaned on racially charged rhetoric to fire up his white nationalist base. It propelled him back into headlines after a solid week that saw Harris’ replacement of Joe Biden atop the Democratic ticket give her daily dividends of good headlines and better fundraising. And despite Trump’s insistence that his third White House campaign would be an appeal to all Americans, he couldn’t help but hint that Harris only got her current position because she checked diversity and inclusion boxes.