*Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., appeared on a recent broadcast of ‘This Week’ where he was questioned by ABC News host George Stephanopoulos about Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity.
Stephanopoulos accused Donalds of perpetuating the claim that Harris only recently identified as a Black woman, USA Today reports.
“When Kamala Harris went into the United States Senate, it was (Associated Press) that said she was the first Indian-American United States senator,” Donalds said.
“It was actually played up a lot when she came into the Senate, now, she’s running nationally, obviously the campaign has shifted, they’re talking much more about her father’s heritage and her Black identity,” he added.
“You just repeated the slur again, if it doesn’t matter, why do you all keep questioning her identity?” Stephanopolous asked.
“She’s always identified as a Black woman. She is biracial, she has a Jamaican father and Indian mother. She’s always identified as both, why are you questioning that?” Stephanopolous continued.
Donalds noted that many people on social media are questioning it.
“This is actually a conversation throughout social media right now, there are a lot of people who are trying to figure this out. But that’s a side issue, not the main issue,” Donalds said.
“Sir, one second, you just did it again,” Stephanopoulos interjected. “Why do you insist on questioning her racial identity?”
On X/Twitter, when one user asked, “So what is the “slur” that he repeated?” Another person responded, “Slur is just another variation of racism meant to shut down talking about something democrats don’t want to talk about. I think their playbook is getting too obvious.”
Stephanopolous pressed Donalds about comments Trump made about Harris’s race during his conversation last week in Chicago at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention.
“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,” Trump said.
“Is she Indian or is she Black? 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,” the former president added.
FLASHBACK:
“What we’re going to cook today is an Indian recipe, because you are Indian.”
Kamala Harris: “Yes. Yes!”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 31, 2024
Harris responded to his comments in Houston while speaking to members of a historically Black sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho.
“It was the same old show − the divisiveness and the disrespect,” the VP said.
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