Harris condemns ‘same old show of divisiveness’ after Trump questions her heritage at Black journalist event

Hours after Donald Trump questioned whether she was truly a Black woman, Vice President Kamala Harris slammed the former president’s racist remark as she spoke before a cheering crowd of members of a predominantly Black sorority in Houston, Texas.

Harris told sisters of the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority — a member of the “Divine Nine” group of historically Black fraternities and sororities — that Trump’s remarks before the National Association of Black Journalists, in which he claimed that she had “all of a sudden she made a turn and… became a Black person,” were “the same old show” of “divisiveness and disrespect” from the ex-president.

Trump’s comments came during a bizarre 30-minute sit-down at the journalism organization’s annual conference in Chicago moments after he told ABC’s Rachel Scott that he “didn’t know” that Harris “was Black.”

“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?”

The vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee for president is the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, making her both the first African-American and Asian-American person to hold the second highest office in the US government.

VP: Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists. The divisiveness and the disrespect. Let me just say the American people deserve better. We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us. pic.twitter.com/JLkpli2XL0

The former president’s remarks have been widely condemned as racist by members of both parties, and in a statement, Harris’ campaign communications director said Trump “showed… the same hostility he has shown throughout his life, throughout his