ANALYSIS – Is Kamala Harris Black or Indian? It depends on who her voters are. This is something I have been saying for a long time.
Biracial presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris changes her racial identity to match her voting demographic. During her earlier political rise in California, Harris emphasized her Indian background.
After gaining national attention she has suddenly become the Black candidate. Very convenient.
And former President Donald Trump courageously said so during an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention on Wednesday.
Donald Trump CALLS OUT Kamala Harris for allegedly RACE BAITING… 👀‼️
— DramaAlert (@DramaAlert) July 31, 2024
"I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black." pic.twitter.com/zyHsh8BZ49
When asked whether Harris, whose mother is Indian and father is Jamaican, is only on the ticket as a DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) hire, Trump noted that Harris previously embraced only her Indian heritage.
When an NABJ moderator noted that Harris has always also identified as Black and attended Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C., and added that in 2017, she became a member of the Congressional Black Caucus while serving as a senator, trump responded:
“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 added: “I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she became a Black person.”
J.D. Vance reinforced the Trump remarks, saying that the former president was pointing out Harris' “fundamental chameleon-like nature.”
“What I question is why she presents a different posture depending on what audience she's in front of. She'll say one thing to one audience, another thing to another audience. She'll say something totally different to another audience,” Vance added.
“And you guys saw yesterday she was in Georgia, and she put on a southern accent for a Georgia audience,” Vance continued to reporters. “She grew up in Vancouver. What the hell is going on here? She is not who she pretends to be.”
Indian-Jamaican Kamala Devi Harris has an interesting new way of speaking in urban Atlanta pic.twitter.com/bU1kQYldsG
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) July 30, 2024
He concluded: “All the president said is this is a person who switches identity like a normal person changes their clothes. And I think it's totally proper to call that out.”
“She's flip flopped on every issue. She's fake. She's phony. And I think our whole campaign is going to have a very fun time pointing that out.”
This truth bomb of course created a firestorm of outrage by the left, producing a wave of rebuttals and biased ‘Fact Checks.' Time predictably titled its story: “Trump Falsely Claims Harris Hasn't Always Identified as Black.”
And in response to Trump's claim, Harris said that the former president's remarks were “the same old show.”
“The divisiveness and the disrespect,” Harris added. “And let me just say, the American people deserve better.”
Of course, she didn't address the validity of his claim.
Thankfully, rather than be cowed, Trump supporters have doubled down on this accurate attack line against Harris on social media, including by sharing videos and images of the vice president embracing her mother's Indian heritage. And this attack line may stick.
Newsweek reported that while posting an apparent image of Harris' birth certificate on X, formerly Twitter, conservative activist Laura Loomer, wrote: “Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN.”
THIS is a copy of @KamalaHarris's BIRTH CERTIFICATE which proves she is NOT BLACK and her Daddy's name is Donald J!
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 31, 2024
See Kamala Harris's @KamalaHarris's birth certificate below which I have obtained.
Nowhere on her birth certificate does it say that she is BLACK OR AFRICAN.… https://t.co/4b0vX4sE6F pic.twitter.com/xvj9xPvhxg
The certificate says “Jamaican” father, and “Caucasian” mother from India.
Loomer claims that her Jamaican ancestry partly comes from a slave-owning British colonist in the former British colonies of America named Hamilton Brown who later emigrated to Jamaica while it was still a British colony.
“Donald Trump is correct. Kamala Harris is NOT black and never has been,” she added.
Charlie Kirk posted:
MINDY KALING: "Okay. So what we're going to cook today is an Indian recipe. Because you are Indian."
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 31, 2024
KAMALA: "Yes yes yes okay."
MINDY KALING: "Actually we're both South Indian."
This was 2019. pic.twitter.com/zwSLrq0L6l
Newsweek added that conservative podcaster Benny Johnson posted a clip of Harris replying “knock wood” to the suggestion that she could become the first Indian American senator in U.S. history, which she achieved after winning a Senate seat in 2016.
“Kamala Harris brags about becoming the ‘First Indian Senator in American History' So…,” Johnson wrote.
Lavern Spicer, a congressional candidate running in Florida's 24th District, added: “I'm Black and I've been Black my whole life. Can someone tell me when this Kamala Harris woman decided she was Black?
“The media is covering for this woman, saying she's ‘code switching' but you can't code switch a whole race. You either Black or you are not. You either experience the Black experience or you don't. So, what is it, girl?”
Meanwhile, the incident was typical Trump genius. The controversial and off-script Trump NABJ interview shifted the media spotlight.
In early July, all eyes were on Trump with his superior debate performance, an assassination attempt and a unified Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
But attention quickly turned to the Democrats when Joe Biden suddenly, and under duress, dropped out of the presidential race.
Harris declared her candidacy less than two weeks ago, but with the expected media adoration fest, she has dominated the headlines since.
So, Trump, while still making headlines, was playing media catch-up. But Wednesday's explosive interview put the spotlight back on the former president and Republican nominee. Well done!
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
READ NEXT: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Reveals Kamala's Infuriating Response To Intelligence Briefings
Southern accent? I grew up bilingual. Speak English (American version) and Southern Kamala does not speak Southern.