Trump Casts Doubt on NRI Kamala Harris' Ethnicity,
VP Responds: 'America Deserves Better
Los Angeles/Aug 01, 2024
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
Former President Donald Trump made unfounded claims about Vice President Kamala Harris' racial identity, asserting she only recently emphasized her Asian-American heritage and now "became a black person." At the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, Trump remarked, "I didn't 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. So I don't know - Is she Indian? Or is she black?"
Ms. Harris condemned Trump's remarks as "the same old show" of "divisiveness... and disrespect." Addressing members of the historically black sorority Sigma Gamma Rho in Houston, she stated, "The American people deserve better. We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us - they are an essential source of our strength."
Kamala Harris, the first black and Asian-American vice-president, has parents from India and Jamaica. She attended Howard University, a historically black university, and joined the predominantly black Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She became a member of the Congressional Black Caucus after entering the Senate in 2017.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended Harris, saying no one "has any right to tell someone who they are, how they identify. That is no one’s right." Representative Ritchie Torres of New York questioned, "Who appointed Donald Trump the arbiter of Blackness?" and described Trump as a "relic of a racist past."
Trump also questioned Ms. Harris' credentials, mentioning her early struggles with the bar exam. "She didn't pass her bar exam and she didn't think she was going to ever pass it and I don't know what happened. Maybe she passed it," he said. Ms. Harris graduated from the University of California Hastings College of Law in 1989, passing the bar exam on her second attempt.
The Chicago event started with a contentious exchange between Scott and Trump, who accused her of a "very rude introduction" when she brought up his past criticisms of black people. Later, Trump criticized the discussion on his social media platform, claiming, "The questions were rude and nasty, often in the form of a statement, but we CRUSHED IT!"
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