Janet Jackson lately warned voters in a latest interview with The Guardian that the upcoming November election may very well be chaotic. The Grammy-winning singer additionally made false statements about Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identification.
“Nicely, you already know what they need to say?” Jackson instructed the information outlet. “‘She’s not black. That is what I heard. She’s Indian.
When instructed that Harris was each Black and Indian, Jackson retorted that the presidential candidate’s father was neither.
“Her father is white. That is what I used to be instructed. I imply, I have not watched the information in days,” she mentioned. “I heard they discovered her father was white.”
Presidential candidate Donald Trump instructed reporters in August that his Democratic rival Harris was “going darkish” for political achieve.
“‘She’s simply selling Indian heritage,'” Trump mentioned in an interview on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists conference. “‘I did not know she was black till a couple of years in the past when she occurred to turn out to be black and now she needs to be referred to as black… is she Indian or is she black?'”
Harris’ father has been confirmed to be a Jamaican immigrant. He got here to the US to pursue a PhD in economics. Her mom, an Indian immigrant, died in 2009.
Elsewhere within the interview, the Guardian requested Jackson if she thought the nation was prepared for Harris, to which she responded: “I do not wish to reply that query, to be sincere, as a result of I actually, actually do not know .I feel it will be complicated both means.
She then reiterated her perception that irrespective of who wins, she doesn’t count on a peaceable transition of energy after the election.
“I feel there may very well be chaos,” Jackson mentioned. “‘No matter, however we’ll must see.'”
