Is Kamala Harris Black, Indian or American?
Donald Trump is confused by the heritage of Kamala Harris.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
This was Donald Trump’s recent statement at the National Association of Black Journalists convention: “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. 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?“. “I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went – she became a black person, I think somebody should look into that too.”
I looked into this, and found that she has a mother from India and a father from Jamaica. This makes her a descendent from both Indian and Black.
Kamala herself is American born, in Oakland, California, and attended Howard University, a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C.
The vast majority of Jamaicans are of Sub-Saharan African descent, and more than 90 percent identify as Black.
Her father, Donald Harris, is from Jamaica who taught at Stanford University for decades. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London in 1960, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966.
Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, received an acceptance letter to the University of California, Berkeley when she was just 19 years old, and arrived in the US in 1958.
Shyamala Gopalan married Donald Harris in 1963, and gave birth to Kamala in California in 1964.
The couple divorced in 1971, with Kamala staying with her mother.
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