HOUSTON, US
United States Vice President and presumptive Democratic Party nominee, Kamala Harris, has hit back at comments made by Republican nominee, former president Donald Trump.
Speaking on Wednesday at the
annual meeting of The National Association of Black Journalists, he falsely
suggested that she misled voters about her race.
“She was always of Indian
heritage, 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, and now
she wants to be known as Black," Trump said.
Harris, who is of both Indian
and Jamaican heritage, has long self-identified as both Black and Asian.
Later in the day, Harris told
members of the historically Black sorority Sigma Gamma Rho in Houston that his comments were “the same old show”.“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was Black"
"The divisiveness and the
disrespect. And let me just say, the American people deserve better,” she said
adding that his comments were a reminder of what four years under Trump had
looked like.
“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.”
Harris said the country
deserves to be led by someone “who understands that our differences do not
divide us. They are an essential source of our strength".
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