Janet Jackson questions Kamala Harris' race: “She is not black”

Janet Jackson apparently questioned the race of Vice President Kamala Harris.

The singer-songwriter spoke with The Guardian for his weekend Podcast to talk about her ongoing Together Again tour, which is set to end in Glasgow, Scotland, on October 13. During the conversation, the 2024 US presidential election came up. When the reporter noted that America could be on the verge of electing its first black president, Jackson interrupted and shared her thoughts.

“Do you know what they supposedly said?” Jackson asked. “She's not black, that's what I heard, she's Native American.” She added, “Her father is white, that's what I've been told. I mean, I haven't seen the news in a couple of days. I was told they found out her father was white.”

The presidential candidate's father, Donald J. Harris, is a Jamaican-American economist and professor at Stanford University. He separated from his Indian mother when Harris and her sister Maya were still small.

When asked again if she thought America was ready for a woman of color as president, Jackson admitted she was not sure.

“I don't know,” she said. “Honestly, I don't want to answer that because I really don't know. I think it's going to be chaos either way.”

Jackson's comments on Harris' race follow Donald Trump's question at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in July about whether his opponent was actually a black woman.

“She was always of Native American descent and only promoted Native American heritage,” Trump said in Chicago. “I didn't know she was black until she happened to become black a few years ago, and now she wants to be known as black. So I don't know, is she Native American or is she black?”

He continued: “I respect both of them, but she obviously doesn't because she was always Native American and then suddenly she turned around and became black. I think someone should look into that too.”