Wild Video Shows Black Men in Barbershop Openly Questioning Whether Kamala Harris Is Black
Ryan King, New York Post, August 4, 2024
The barbershop was buzzing with controversy.
A viral video clip shows multiple black men in a Dauphin County, Pennsylvania barbershop openly questioning whether Vice President Kamala Harris is “black.”
Harris, 59, who is biracial — the daughter of a Jamaican-American father and an Indian-American mother, has been subject to attacks about her race. Last week Trump questioned her racial identity and suggested that she only recently started identifying as black.
The clip, from a local CBS affiliate, starts with reporter Joel Smith asking, “Is Kamala gonna make you a little more likely or less likely to vote Democrat?”
One of the men promptly spoke up and quizzed his peers, asking them, “Is Kamala black, yes or no?”
A man next to him, bluntly replied that he’d “let her speak on that, but to me, no.”
“I share that same view,” another man in the group said.
“I heard she wasn’t,” a fourth man explained. “I heard she’s half black and half Asian.”
CNN host Michael Smerconish aired a clip of that exchange on his Saturday program and told viewers that he previously played the segment on his radio program and black callers described the men as “low information voters.”
Trump stirred up controversy over Harris’ racial identity last Wednesday during an appearance at a National Association of Black Journalists event in Chicago, during which he questioned her race.
So, it looks like Donald Trump isn’t the only one *CONFUSED* if Kamala Harris is “black” or not 👀 pic.twitter.com/1mFbyMBZcA
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 3, 2024
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