Janet Jackson Raises Eyebrows by Claiming of Kamala Harris: ‘She’s Not Black’

Janet Jackson is British GuardianIn it, she inexplicably claims about Vice President Kamala Harris: “You know what they said? She’s not black. I heard she’s Indian.”

Janet, 58, told interviewer Nosheen Iqbal: “Her father is white, that’s what I was told. I hadn’t watched the news for a few days and then I heard that I found out her father was white.”

Harris, who is biracial, has always identified as black. Her father is Donald J. Harris, a retired black Jamaican economist and professor, and her mother is Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian biomedical scientist who died in 2009 at age 70.

False accusations about Harris’ race have swirled since she replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee, but the most famous person to repeat this urban legend is Janet Jackson.

Jackson, who co-owns Rhythm Nation Records with his brother Randy Jackson, once I liked the post While Randy supports Donald Trump over Biden/Harris, he has also slammed Harris.

Elsewhere in the Guardian interview, Jackson admitted she didn’t want to answer a question about whether the United States was ready for a woman of color to be president, saying: “I don’t know. I don’t want to answer that because I honestly, really, honestly don’t know. I think it would be chaos either way. It could be chaos either way. But we’ll just have to wait and see.”

In the same interview, the pop icon, who is promoting the UK and European legs of her Together Again tour, which begins on September 25, spoke passionately about becoming a mother later in life: She gave birth to her son, Aisa, at age 50.

“The most important thing I’ve ever done, the biggest thing I’ve ever done, is become a mother. It has had an amazing impact on my life,” she tells Iqbal. “I wanted three kids, but I thought, ‘I can’t do this anymore. That’s probably all I can handle,’ because you have to give it your all and spread the love. If I have three kids, I don’t want anyone to feel left out. Of course you have to work, but you’re no longer first. It completely changes your life, and it’s an experience you can’t trade for anything.”

Touching on the tricky aspects of being raised by her parents, Joe and Katherine Jackson, Janet says, “There are times when I wish they’d done things differently, and then I say, ‘No, this is what I’m going to say.’ [my son] “If they had done this for me, it would have been so much better for me as a kid.”

Overall, she says she’s grateful to her controversial parents: “I hated it as a child, but now I’m grateful. I have to thank my parents for making me a down-to-earth person.”