‘She’s not Black’: Janet Jackson makes shocking comments about Kamala Harris’s heritage

Janet Jackson has falsely claimed that Kamala Harris is not Black and has a white father, echoing words from Harris’s electoral opponent Donald Trump.

The singer, 58, whose brother Tito passed away aged 70 last week, made the surprising comments about the vice-president when asked how she felt about the US having its first female Black president.

In response, Jackson called into question Harris’s heritage, evoking comments questioning the Democratic candidate’s race previously made byTrump in July.

The “All for You” singer claimed: “She’s not Black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian. Her father’s white. That’s what I was told.”

Jackson then admitted she hadn’t “watched the news in a few days” but was told somebody had “discovered” Harris’ father “was white”.

Harris is both Black and Indian. She was born to Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian cancer researcher and Donald Harris, a Black economics professor from Jamaica in 1964.

Gopalan died of cancer aged 70 in 2009. Meanwhile, Donald Harris, 86, is a professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University.

Jackson’s comments echo those made by Trump during a speech at the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention in Chicago in July.

The former president claimed: “[Harris] 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.”

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He questioned: “So I don’t know, is she Indian or is