Pop star Janet Jackson has come under fire on social media after saying she heard Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris isn't black.
“She's not black. From what I've heard, she's Indian.”
Jackson has a wide range of Interview During an interview with The Guardian, the interviewer tried to correct the pop star on the spot when the 58-year-old was asked by Nosheen Iqbal whether she would support Harris becoming the first black woman president of the United States.
“Well, you know what they said,” Jackson responded, “She's not black. What I heard is that she's Indian.”
“Well, she's both,” Iqbal replied.
“Her father is white. That's what I've been told. I haven't watched the news in a few days,” Jackson replied. “I've been told that her father is white.”
Iqbal said he was “shocked” by Jackson's comments and blamed social media algorithms for pushing him to align with “hardcore QAnon, pro-Trump conspiracy theorists” who questioned Harris' racial identity. Harris' father, a Jamaican-born economist, divorced her Indian mother when she was just five years old.
She went on to ask whether Jackson thought the country was ready for a woman and a person of color to be president, regardless of what color he thought Harris' skin was.
“I don't know,” Jackson said in what Iqbal described as a stage whisper.
“Honestly, I don't want to answer that question because, really, honestly, I don't know. I think it's going to be chaos either way,” she added.
Social media has collapsed along with much of the left. Condemn Jackson criticized the remarks, comparing them to comments made by former President Donald Trump, who claimed Harris only recently began to identify as black.
The matter was complicated when a person claiming to be Jackson's representative issued an apology, but she later apology She confirmed that the comments were unauthorized and has not apologized for them.
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