Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris somehow “happened to turn Black” a few years ago and had “only promoted Indian heritage” during a bizarre interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention.
Trump tells Black journalists that Kamala Harris “is of Indian heritage … is she Indian or is she Black? … she became a Black person.” Note the audience laughing at him. pic.twitter.com/PAhmgr1yBS
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 31, 2024
Forbes noted Trump’s obvious lie with a fact check:
In 2003, Harris told San Francisco outlet AsianWeek her mother “fell in love with my father, a Black man,” and said she grew up in a “Black community.”
After serving as San Francisco Attorney General, Harris was elected as the first Black female attorney general in California—a position she held from 2011 to 2017—and the second Black woman senator in the U.S., serving as California senator from 2017 to 2021.
Before her inauguration to the Senate, Harris made her race and ethnicity clear in a 2016 interview with The New York Times, saying her mother “had two Black babies, and she raised them to be two Black women” — Harris made a similar point in her 2019 memoir “The Truths We Hold,” saying her mother and maternal grandparents “instilled us with pride in our South Asian roots,” and that her mother “understood very well that she was raising two Black daughters.”
(Sources: Forbes, RSBN via Twitterg)