Somebody get the flow chart out — obviously Donald Trump does n’t lie with biracial people exist .
ALRIGHTY y’all. Yesterday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists conference when he seemed to display confusion over the concept of a person being biracial.
During his sit-down with moderators, Trump was asked: “Some of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have labeled Vice President Kamala Harris — who is the first Black and Asian American woman to serve as Vice President or be on a major party ticket — as a ‘DEI hire.’ Is that acceptable language to you? And will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to stop it?”
To which Trump immediately respond : " How do you define DEI ? Go ahead , how do you delimit it ? "
And when the master of ceremonies answers , " Diversity , equity , and comprehension , " Trump promote back , " Ok yeah , go ahead . Is that what your definition is ? Give me a definition … You have to define it . "
Then, when pressed to answer the question, Trump said, “I’ve known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much. And 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. So I don’t know. Is she Indian, or is she Black?”
breakage : Trump falsely questions whether VP Harris is Black.pic.twitter.com/pJCmJK6R0W
After the interview, Trumpdoubled downon his false claims surrounding Harris’s race via Truth Social, writing, “Crazy Kamala is saying she’s Indian, not Black. This is a big deal. Stone cold phony. She uses everybody, including her racial identity!”
To be clear, Kamala Harris is the daughter of the late Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian biologist whohelped advance breast cancer research, and Donald J. Harris, a Jamaican economics professor at Stanford University. She graduated from Howard University, a historically Black college, and her identity as both Black and Indian is indisputable.
In response to Trump questioning her race, Harris addressed an audience in Houston. “It was the same old show — the divisiveness and the disrespect,” shesaid. “The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth, a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts. We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us. They are an essential source of our strength.”
This good afternoon , Donald Trump verbalize to the National Association of Black Journalists . It was the same old show . Let me just say : The American people deserve well than Donald Trump ’s divisiveness and contempt .
While Harris was very poignant in her response, the internet couldn’t help but be a little more…blunt. Here are a few reactions:
Trump learning Kamala is biracial : pic.twitter.com / kdnrPxpx13
Kamala in Trump ’s imaginativeness like : pic.twitter.com/0r5OboPpLd
Just a little diagram to make it well-fixed for MAGAs who ca n’t read but understand images . Hopefully.pic.twitter.com/mL4JNzsyWa
MAGA : " Biden chose her for VP only because she ’s a black cleaning lady . “Also MAGA : " She ’s not black ! "
Republicans run across a miscellaneous slipstream personpic.twitter.com/dE6EYn3iMa
To take the air into a way full of opprobrious diarist and attack someone ’s “ Blackness ” is another level of discourtesy . To anyone who take a reminder : we ca n’t change the colour of our skin , and we do n’t want to.https://t.co/eYyj9QfxqM
Two question come to beware : — Is it Trump ’s thought that biracial people can not exist ? — If so , does his running mate fit ?
So yeah. Mixed race people exist.
