Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) has referred to as out the “sad irony” in former President Donald Trump’s latest assaults on Vice President Kamala Harris, wherein he questioned her Black racial identification.
Throughout a Wednesday look on CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Warnock slammed Trump, who spoke on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists Conference in Chicago earlier that day, for selling “division and hatred” by falsely accusing Harris of not beforehand figuring out as Black.
“He doesn’t even recognize the sad irony of his remark,” mentioned Warnock, who’s Black. “In a real sense, Kamala Harris’ story is an iteration of the American story. The diversity that is among us and often within us.”
“She carries that literally in her veins,” he later continued. “In that sense, he doesn’t know who we are.”
“If you don’t know us, you can’t represent us — you certainly can’t lead us.”
Among the many a number of falsehoods Trump spewed onstage throughout his contentious look on the NABJ conference, the previous president implied that Harris had beforehand solely recognized as Indian.
“I’ve known [Harris] a long time indirectly, not directly very much, and she was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump mentioned. “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. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”
“She has always identified as a Black woman,” mentioned Rachel Scott, a senior congressional correspondent for ABC Information.
“I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t,” Trump continued. “I think somebody should look into that.”
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Harris is each Black and South Asian. She was born in California and is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants.
The vice chairman, who attended a traditionally Black college and is a member of a traditionally Black sorority, has all the time recognized as a Black girl.
Others have referred to as out the truth that assaults on Harris’ Black racial identification disregard the variations between race, ethnicity and nationality.
Harris responded to Trump’s remarks throughout an look hours later at a convention in Houston, Texas, hosted by the traditionally Black sorority Sigma Gamma Rho.
The vice chairman instructed the group that Trump’s remarks had been “the same old show, the divisiveness and the disrespect.”
“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,” she mentioned. “We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us.”
