Posted on 09/25/2024 8:20:32 PM PDT by Red Badger
Multiple-time Grammy-winning singer Janet Jackson revoked an unauthorized apology issued on her behalf to Vice President Kamala Harris concerning recent comments that called Harris’s ethnic background into question.
Jackson ignited controversy during an interview with The Guardian on Saturday, when she speculated that Harris may not be black but Indian.
“Well, you know what they supposedly said? She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian,” Jackson stated.
When pressed by the reporter, she further claimed, “I was told that they discovered her father was white.”
Harris’s presumptive father is Donald J. Harris, an economics professor emeritus at Stanford University and author of a well-known treatise on Marxist economic theory.
Harris is known to have been descended in part from an Irish slaveholder—thereby undermining his leftist daughter’s recent endorsement of reparations to black Americans and underscoring the logistical problem that such policies would create through arbitrary payouts that could potentially go to the descendants of those who were responsible.
It is unclear whether Jackson—the sister of the late, racially ambiguous pop superstar Michael Jackson—was referring to this or was calling Donald Harris’s paternity into question.
Regardless, her remarks prompted widespread outrage, with major news outlets expressing moral indignation over Jackson’s remarks.
The following day, an apology surfaced, but it was revealed that Mo Elmasri, who issued the statement, falsely claimed to be Jackson’s manager and acted without her consent.
The Jackson team clarified that Randy Jackson, her brother, is her actual manager, and Elmasri had no authority to speak on her behalf. The lack of clarity regarding Elmasri’s role has left many questions about his connection to Jackson and her team.
Legacy media quickly connected Jackson’s controversial comments to former President Donald Trump’s assertion that “Harris turned black” for political gain.
This connection sparked a wave of social media speculation regarding Harris’s true ethnic background, prompting Democrats to assert that the scrutiny over her ethnicity was rooted in racism.
Trump also raised questions during his Sept. 10 debate with Harris as to the reasons that her estranged father had been absent throughout her history-making presidential run.
The situation intensified when Harris’s birth certificate circulated online, identifying her mother as ‘Caucasian.’ However, a Reuters fact check concluded that Harris has both Jamaican and Indian heritage, despite the birth certificate listing.
Jackson’s team remains firm, as of Tuesday night, in its retraction of the unauthorized apology, emphasizing that the initial comments were made without malice.
The incident highlighted the complex interplay between celebrity statements and media interpretation, particularly in the context of race and identity.
Who knows, maybe blacks are becoming tired of being replaced by Asians and Hispanics.
>> a Reuters fact check concluded that Harris has both Jamaican and Indian heritage
Not African
>> tired of being replaced by Asians and Hispanics.
or simply by illegals
See what President Trump started?
Next, random celebrities will be discussing Haitians eating dogs.
>> tired of being replaced by Asians and Hispanics.
“or simply by illegals”
That is turning out to be the exact same thing.
Janet’s youngest brother, Randy is her manager these days. Rumor is, Randy is a Trump voter, and is very likely to have influenced his sister’s response to the big Kamala question.
They may both intend to wait this little controversy out.
Meanwhile, mum’s the word!
From what I read a while back that the Jackson family and trump are friends
Except her father isn’t white.
Donald is from their world of entertainment and presentation. I would think a lot of that small, highly successful group knows each other.
Her father is the Grandson of Irish slave importers who had over one thousand slaves working for them including housekeepers and farm workers. In her book, Kamala claims in a photo, she’s standing next to her paternal Grandmother, the problem is, her Grandmother died 4 years before she was born.
Angela Davis has ancestors from Plymouth Rock one one side and slave owners on the other side. Does that mean she is not black.
“Except her father isn’t white.”
He’s mainly white.
Do you have a citation for that? I don’t see it.
It means that she owes herself reparations.
Regards,
His looks.
Michael Jackson was not racially ambiguous.
He was a human being; that was his race.
His color, based on .003% of his DNA, was black. He reportedly suffered from vitiligo, which changed his pigmentation to white.
I hate the stupid identity politics game.
She’s not black. She grew up Canadian in the UPPER CLASS.
There is a review of her ancestry and family records in Jamaica. Strangely, records which could substantiate her claims of being black are missing.
Do you have a citation for that? I don’t see it.
Google Candace Owens and click on one of the links about Kamala’s family history.
I used this one this morning - https://www.youtube.com/live/x4s2aiMwRNg
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