Donald Trump Said Kamala Harris 'Turned Black.' It Would Be Funny If It Wasn't Painfully Familiar

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is Black. Kamala Harris is Asian American. We hold these truths to be self-evident, to the degree that even engaging with Donald Trump’s profoundly absurd claim that the vice president decided to “turn Black”—as if on a whim, for political points—feels like an exercise in futility.But is running for president, and when he appeared on July 31 to held by the National Association of Black Journalists and suggested that Harris “happened to turn Black” a number of years ago, he was not doing so in a vacuum.“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,” the former president said, on the record, in front of people. “So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?“I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went—she became a Black person,” he continued, because no one on his campaign was there to clap a hand over his mouth. “I think somebody should look into that too.”Why we should think twice before referring to the VP—and presumptive Democratic nominee for president—simply as Kamala.If I’ve learned anything from Trump’s ascent from reality TV star to president of the United States, it’s that his warped narratives are rooted in American oblivion that is stronger and more potent than we probably care to admit.