Janet Jackson’s most recent interview with The Guardian suggests that she believes certain conspiracy theories about VP Kamala Harris’ racial identity.
In the interview, Jackson, 58, tells journalist Nosheen Iqbal, that she “heard” the vice president is “not Black.”
“Her father’s white. That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days. I was told that they discovered her father was white.”
Harris has always identified as Black. Her father is Black Jamaican economist and professor Donald J. Harris, who is retired, and her mom was Indian biomedical scientist Shyamala Gopalan, who died at 70 in 2009.
Jackson also said she isn’t sure if “America is ready” for a woman of color as a president, as The Guardian put it.
Iqbal pushed back and said, “Harris has dual heritage, I say, and, given this moment, does Jackson think America is ready for her?”
“I don’t know,” she said. “Honestly, I don’t want to answer that because I really, truthfully, …