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Thursday, August 01, 2024
Trump Questions Harris’s Racial Identity, Saying She Only ‘Became a Black Person’ Recently. (NY Times)
DONALD JOHN TRUMP's racist lies know no bounds. TRUMP's father was allegedly arrested in NYC KKK rally circa 1927. The apple did not fall far from the tree. From The New York Times:
Trump Questions Harris’s Racial Identity, Saying She Only ‘Became a Black Person’ Recently
In an appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists, Donald Trump also said his choice of Senator JD Vance as vice president will not matter to voters.
Jonathan Weisman, Maya King and Zolan Kanno-Youngs reported from Chicago.
Former President Donald J. Trump questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s identity as a Black woman on Wednesday in front of an audience of Black journalists, suggesting his opponent for the presidency had adopted her racial profile as a way to gain a political advantage.
“She was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black person,” he said of Ms. Harris, whose mother was Indian American, whose father is Black and who has always identified as a Black woman.
Ms. Harris has long embraced both her Black and South Asian identity. She attended Howard University, a historically Black institution, and pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation’s first sorority established for Black college women. Headlines from her earliest political victories dating back to the early 2000s highlighted both identities.
Mr. Trump’s remarks prompted gasps and jeers from the audience at the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago. The former president’s combative appearance there was one of the most unusual of the campaign so far as he sparred with reporters over diversity efforts, repeated falsehoods about a range of subjects and told the group that he was “the best president for the Black population” since Abraham Lincoln.
Ms. Harris responded in careful fashion on Wednesday night, saying in a speech in Houston that he had put on the “same old show” of “divisiveness and disrespect.”
“The American people deserve better,” Ms. Harris said at a convention of Sigma Gamma Rho, one of the nation’s most prominent Black sororities. “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.”
Mr. Trump, who has appeared mainly before friendly audiences while campaigning, had ample warning that the panel of journalists awaiting him would be tough. Yet facing three Black female interviewers, he insulted Ms. Harris — the first Black woman on the top of a major-party ticket — even as he tried to appeal to Black voters as their best choice in November.
He began the interview by denouncing one of the reporters on the panel, Rachel Scott of ABC News, as “nasty” and “rude” after she questioned him about racist statements he had made in the past, including accusing former President Barack Obama of not being born in the United States and describing a Black prosecutor as an “animal.”
He deflected a question about his promise to pardon the rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by saying the Capitol was attacked last week by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Those protesters did deface buildings and burn an American flag, but they were at the Washington train station, not the Capitol.
Asked what he meant when he once said immigrants were taking “Black jobs,” he said: “A Black job is anybody who has a job.”
But his comments on Ms. Harris stood out.
“I’ve known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much, and she was always of Indian heritage,” said Mr. Trump, who makes a point of mispronouncing Ms. Harris’s name. “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. Now she wants to be known as Black. 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 became a Black person.”
Shortly after the event, the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, called Mr. Trump’s remarks “repulsive” and “insulting,” adding that “no one has any right to tell someone who they are.”
Trump is a racist troll. Whatever the lowest common intellectual denominator will laugh at he will say. He plays off people's worst impulses and profits from hate. So in other words.. typical Republican.
Orange Hilter wishes to appeal to the mob so they'll overthrow national, state, and local leaders and form one big fascist state with Orange Hilter and the mob in charge of everyone and everything.
Trump is a racist troll. Whatever the lowest common intellectual denominator will laugh at he will say. He plays off people's worst impulses and profits from hate. So in other words.. typical Republican.
ReplyDeleteOrange Hilter wishes to appeal to the mob so they'll overthrow national, state, and local leaders and form one big fascist state with Orange Hilter and the mob in charge of everyone and everything.
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