Janet Jackson is being called “irrelevant” and a “leech” after she questioned Kamala Harris’ race in an interview with the Guardian published on Saturday.
“She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian,” the “That’s The Way Love Goes” hitmaker, 58, said during a chat about “the State of the Union.”
“Her father’s white. That’s what I was told,” she went on.
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“I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days. I was told that they discovered her father was white.”
Vice President Harris, 59, is the daughter of two immigrants. Her father is Jamaican while her mother is Indian.
Fans were appalled by Jackson’s false statements and slammed her on X, with one writing, “This is why she’s irrelevant and leeching off of her brothers’ success.”
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Of course, the singer’s older brother is the late Michael Jackson, who was frequently questioned after his skin turned black to white in the 1990s. It was known at the time that he had vitiligo, a disorder that causes patches of skin to lose color, per Mayo Clinic.
Bringing up the debate that the “Beat It” singer’s changing skin tone caused, another X user penned, “Janet, you know better than to believe that nonsense… especially after all the race controversies Michael went through…”
“‘That’s what I heard’ is the new way of saying ‘i believe the stupid, unsubstantiated s–t people tell me,’” a third dismayed person tweeted.