Janet Jackson tells interviewer she's heard Kamala Harris is not Black, echoing election disinformation
Echoing disinformation that has infected the U.S. presidential election, pop icon Janet Jackson said she has heard Vice President Kamala Harris is not Black.
Echoing well-trodden disinformation that has infected the U.S. presidential election, pop icon Janet Jackson said she has heard Vice President Kamala Harris is not Black.
The remarks were published Saturday by The Guardian, granted access and interview time as Jackson promotes her latest tour’s European stops. Jackson is also promoting a residency that starts in December at Resorts World Las Vegas.
Jackson’s representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday evening.
Because Jackson sang of wanting to “break the color lines” on the 1989 single “Rhythm Nation,” the interviewer said she was inspired to ask for Jackson’s view of Harris as a Black woman who could be the first to serve as U.S. president.
“Well, you know what they supposedly said?” Jackson is quoted as saying during the interview in her adopted hometown of London. “She’s not Black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian.”
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