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Janet Jackson appears to be absolutely down the rabbit gap of misinformation. Throughout a latest interview, the music icon mentioned she heard that Vice President Kamala Harris just isn’t Black, and followers on social media usually are not glad about her obvious naivete.

To be clear, Kamala Harris has an Indian mom and Black, by means of Jamaica, father. In order that makes her each Black and Indian—so, each. She has recognized as Black her whole life, and even attended HBCU Howard College. So anybody entertaining the notion that she someway just isn’t actually Black is both misinformed or working in dangerous religion.

As for Jackson, in an interview that was printed on Saturday (Sept. 21), she advised the Guardian. “Properly, you realize what they supposedly mentioned? She’s not Black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian.”

However when the author advised her that Harris was Black and Indian, she basically doubled down on the ignorance, saying, “I imply, I haven’t watched the information in a number of days. I used to be advised that they found her father was white.”

For the document, Harris is 59 years previous, which means her daddy has been a identified Black man for not less than that lengthy.

So as to add to the battle, Jackson allegedly issued an apology on Sunday (Sept. 22) to Buzzfeed. Nevertheless, her reps have since famous that the man who supplied that quote, Mo Elmasri, isn’t her supervisor as he claimed—so that mea culpa was not approved. Additionally, Mr. Elmasri is now claiming he was fired by Jackson and Randy Jackson, with many stating that the latter has been identified to imagine conspiracy theories together with his complete chest.

Man alive. Additionally, come on Randy.

Peep the reactions to Janet Jackson’s failure of the best of analysis within the gallery. Sure, Janet Jackson is icon, however she’s nonetheless going to catch this slander.