Islamabad - Donald Trump claimed at a convention of black journalists on Wednesday that the vice president and Democratic presidential nominee recently emphasized his Asian-American heritage when That now she is claiming to be a black person.
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I didn't know she was black until a few years ago, then she became black and now she's known as a black person he said at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago. want
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Trump said So I don't know if they are Indians? Or are they from the black race?
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ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott was one of the organizers of the Chicago event, with whom Trump had a heated debate on the topic.
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I respect either of them Trump said, referring to Harris' racial identity.
But obviously she doesn't, because at first she was Indian all the way and then suddenly she turned around and became a black woman.
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The American people deserve better he said during a meeting of a historic black group in Houston. We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us but are an important source of our strength.
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Kamala Harris is related to India as her mother was from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu while her father was born in Jamaica.
She is thus the first black and Asian-American vice president.
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He attended Harvard University, a historically black university. She became a member of the Congressional Black Caucus after entering the Senate in 2017.
No one has the right to tell another person who they are who they are, and how to identify them White House press secretary Carrie Jean-Pierre said.
Nobody has that right.
Republican candidate and former President Trump has been attacking his opponents on racial lines in the past. He also falsely accused the country's first black president, Barack Obama, of not being born in America
