Muthomi Ireri
United States Vice President and presumptive Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris has responded to comments made by Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists on Wednesday, Trump falsely claimed that Harris misled voters about her race. “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,” Trump said.
Harris, who has both Indian and Jamaican heritage, has consistently identified as both Black and Asian.
Addressing members of the historically Black sorority Sigma Gamma Rho in Houston later that day, Harris dismissed Trump’s remarks as “the same old show.”
“The divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me just say, the American people deserve better,” she said, emphasizing that Trump’s comments reminded her of the contentious atmosphere during his presidency. “The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth, a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts.”
Harris asserted that the country needs a leader “who understands that our differences do not divide us. They are an essential source of our strength.”
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