Kamala Harris officially started running for President of the United States less than two weeks ago, but her identity is already being questioned by Trump. Speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists panel earlier this week, he accused Harris of ‘turning on’ her Blackness. It’s just the latest example of multiracial identity being maligned and misunderstood, and it shows that we still have a long way to go before mixed people are allowed to define themselves with multiplicity.
“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.” This is what Donald Trump said at Wednesday’s National Association of Black Journalists panel, where three Black female news reporters grilled the ex-US president on his term in the White House, current campaign for re-election and Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris.
