Ms. Jackson proves to be 'nasty' to Vice President Kamala Harris
Janet Jackson thinks VP Kamala Harris has a secret white father
A few days ago, a UPS package arrived with my annual prescription of contact lenses. I was relieved, knowing I wouldn’t have to make that trek in the snow to my eye doctor’s office a second time to pick them up. I’ve been wearing glasses since third grade and contact lenses since I was 15 years old. But if I were to take the contacts out and hide my glasses, I’d still be able to see Vice President Kamala Harris is a Black woman. Indian? Sure. But Black too. This isn’t one of those moments where you look at a racially ambiguous woman and wonder if she’s got Black in her. With the vice president, you can visually see it. And I’m saying that as someone with astigmatism.
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So I couldn’t wrap my mind around how in the world Janet Jackson — of all the iconic Black women in the music world — could fix her mouth to say, “Well, you know what they supposedly said? She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian.”
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I read that line in The Guardian and looked for the Tylenol and a time machine — because I had no idea this even happened three months ago. And if not for “Reid This Reid That” revamping their podcast, I still would’ve slept through this news. When journalist Jacque Reid refused to sing along to a Janet Jackson song with Joy-Ann Reid, I thought that was peculiar.
I was playing the “Dear God, WTAF?” podcast episode in the background while working on my computer, and I turned around. Jacque Reid was so on point with her Wendy Williams analysis — and took the words right out of my mouth — that I’ve come to trust her distaste for something. (I’ll never be as hardcore vegan as she is, but I’m still waving my proud vegetarian flag 20 years later.) But beef with Janet Jackson? My first thought was, “That’s just plain weird. WHY?!”
I had no idea about Janet Jackson’s comments in regard to Kamala Harris.
“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.” - Janet Jackson in The Guardian
“I don’t know,” Janet Jackson said to The Guardian question about whether America is ready for a president who is a woman of color. “Honestly, I don’t want to answer that because I really, truthfully, don’t know. I think either way it goes is going to be mayhem.”
I read these quotes, and Donald Trump’s equally ignorant comment about Harris “turning black” came rushing back to me — the same Alpha Kappa Alpha HBCU Howard University graduate who was at protests with her parents and got reprimanded by her biological father for making a joke about Jamaicans and marijuana. This is who Janet Jackson is saying she “heard” from the “news she hasn’t watched in a few days” has a white father? I absolutely adore Michael Jackson’s music, but the Moonwalker looked more like a white woman before he passed away than Harris has her whole life!
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Is there something in the water? When did Janet Jackson become Ann Coulter? And what is up with a segment of black women constantly questioning this lady’s race (and weirdly her hair type)?