Everything we know about Kamala Harris’ ethnic background after Trump questioned it

Vice President Kamala Harris has faced a barrage of attacks about her race — including one from Donald Trump, who claimed Harris “happened to turn Black” only recently.

During a question-and-answer session with the National Association of Black Journalists on Wednesday, the former president questioned: “Is she Indian or is she Black?”

In short, she’s both. The presumptive Democratic nominee is both the first Black and Asian-American vice president.

The vice president was born in California while her father, Donald Harris, was born in Jamaica and her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was born in India. Harris has spoken openly about how she grew up appreciating both cultures.

Trump’s remark is particularly strange, seeing as during her 2020 presidential run, Harris made headlines after calling out Joe Biden’s past record on race and and school busing: “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bussed to school every day. And that little girl was me.”

Harris attended Howard University, a historically black college in Washington, DC, and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, one of the first Black sororities in the nation. She has spoken fondly of her Jamaican heritage.

In 2021, she recalled her father taking her and her sister to see Bob Marley and the Wailers in 1978 — her first concert ever. “We sat up top in the back of the theater and, as I watched the performance, I was in complete awe,” Harris told the Washington Post at the time. “To this day, I know the lyrics to nearly every Bob Marley song.”

“My father, like so many Jamaicans, has immense pride in our Jamaican heritage and instilled that same pride in my sister and me,” Harris told the outlet. “We love