The Hollywood pitch goes something like this: Put a racially ambiguous Black person in the public eye — Kamala, Meghan, Barack.
On this week’s episode, Donald Trump got his cameo, accusing Vice President Kamala Harris of switching races.
“She was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black person,” he said during an appearance in front of the National Association of Black Journalists.
— someone, somewhere, will accuse us of lying; of being a grifter trying to impersonate another race, a more real race.
When we enter the spotlight, we are often treated as specimens, there to be dissected, poked, debated, disputed and disinherited.
Persons:
— Kamala, Meghan, Barack, Count, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, ”, Harris, —, Kardashian
Organizations:
National Association of Black Journalists
Locations:
Indian