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Donald Trump Says Kamala Harris ‘Happened to Turn Black’ as He Questions Her Race at Black Journalists’ Convention
Donald Trump questioned Kamala Harris’ race on Wednesday, July 31, saying he “didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black.”
Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president after Joe Biden dropped out of the race, is both Indian and Black. The daughter of immigrant parents, Harris was born to mother Dr. Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a cancer researcher, who came to the United States from India. Her father, economist Donald Harris, was born in Jamaica.
“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,” Trump, 78, said, during remarks given at the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual convention in Chicago. “So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”
Harris made history in 2020 as the first woman vice president and also the first Black person and first person of Asian descent to hold the office.