Janet Jackson claims Kamala Harris is not black and that the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate has a white father.
Jackson, 58, made the shocking claim in an interview with The guardwhen asked how she felt about the United States having its first female, black president.
“Well, you know what they said?” the singer replied. “She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian.”
“Her father is white. That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t been watching the news for a couple of days. I was told that they found out her father is white.”
Janet Jackson, pictured during an interview on British television earlier this month, has claimed that Kamala Harris is not black and that the vice president’s father is white
Harris was born to Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian cancer researcher, and Donald Harris, a black economics professor from Jamaica (pictured together in the 1960s)
Harris, 59, was born in 1964 to Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian-born cancer researcher, and Donald J. Harris, a black Jamaican economics professor.
The couple married in 1963 and separated in 1971, after Kamala and her younger sister Maya, 57, were born.
Gopalan died of cancer in 2009 at age 70, while Donald Harris, 86, is now a professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University after retiring in 1998.
Jackson’s late brother Michael faced controversy over his skin after it changed from black to white over the course of his career. He blamed a medical condition called vitiligo and denied bleaching his skin.
And the Nasty singer’s false claim that Harris is half-white is being compared to one of Donald Trump’s most infamous claims during the presidential campaign.
Donald Trump said Harris, pictured Friday night in Madison, Wisconsin, “coincidentally turned black” when speaking to black journalists about her race in July, while the former president has since doubled down on her support for the election.
Trump claimed that Harris “accidentally turned black” while speaking at a National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago in July.
He said, ‘She was always of Indian descent, and she was just promoting her Indian descent.
‘I didn’t know she was black until a few years ago, when she happened to become black, and now she wants to be known as black.
‘I don’t know, is she Indian or black?
“I have respect for both of them, but she clearly doesn’t, because she was all Indian, and then she suddenly took a turn and she became a black person. I think someone should look at that too.”
Trump is pictured at the National Association of Black Journalists event in Chicago in July, where he made comments about Harris’ race
Harris dismissed the comments a few days later, accusing Trump of “the same old habit, divisiveness and disrespect.”
She added: “The American people deserve better.”
The vice president has not yet responded to Jackson’s comments about her race.
Trump’s comments about Harris’ race angered many conservatives. Even his own supporters were said to be irritated that the former president did not focus on attacks on Harris’ policies.
Earlier this month, Trump appeared to reiterate his comments about Harris’ race.
“I don’t care what she is. I don’t care. Whatever she wants to be, it’s okay with me.”
Polls show the battle between Trump and Harris remains tight heading into Election Day on Tuesday, November 5.
