Janet Jackson attends the Christian Siriano SS24 Runway Show at The Pierre Hotel on Sept. 8, 2023, in New York City.
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Janet Jackson showed how misinformed she is about Kamala Harris’ identity when she repeated a false claim about the Democratic nominee’s race in a recent interview with The Guardian .
“Well, you know what they supposedly said? She’s not Black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian,” Jackson said in response to reporter Nosheen Iqbal’s remark about America possibly voting in its first Black female president. (For the record, Harris is both Black and Indian .)
Jackson seemingly doubled down on the mischaracterization when she repeated another falsehood she said she’d heard about the vice president: “Her father’s white. That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days. I was told that they discovered her father was white.”