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Janet Jackson tells interviewer she's heard Kamala Harris is not Black, echoing election disinformation

www.nbcnews.com Janet Jackson tells interviewer she's heard Kamala Harris is not Black, echoing election disinformation

The pop icon discussed the vice president’s background as part of a press campaign promoting the second leg of her Together Again tour in Europe.

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As they say, the best argument against democracy is a 5 minute chat with an average voter. That average voter in this case being Janet.

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- That seems like more an argument for why we need significantly better public education, not for why the tyranny of the minority is better than the tyranny of the majority
  
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  What would you teach Ms. Jackson that would help her think through this?
  
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  You unfortunately can't get everyone no matter how good the education system is. Especially if you live in a state like Indiana where it's trendy to give money to private and charter schools instead of public school.
  
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- how long do you have to live in London before you can't vote in the U.S... oh! unless you just have money
  
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  And back in 1989 she was claiming citizenship in the “Rhythm Nation”.
  
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  It’s actually pretty difficult to get rid of US citizenship
  
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  If you were born a citizen you must actively revoke it. It requires a large fee, an interview to make sure you know what you're doing, and submitting official paperwork.
  
  So forever. For anyone.
  
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“[Harris'] father’s white,” Jackson is quoted as saying. “That’s what I was told."

Aaaand... who told you that?

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- Is that white man in those pictures Harris's father?
  
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  That's Clayton Bigsby
  
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  That moderately-tanned German guy, correct.
  
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- I was told that they discovered her father was white.
  
  It’s birther nonsense, just some crazy conspiracy theory they can spread. Next they will say she was born in India.
  
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I'm sorry Ms Jackson, but no

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- are you for real?
  
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  🎵She never checked into the truth or facts🎶
  
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Janet Jackson MIA for the last ten years resurfacing briefly just to throw racial shade on Kamala

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What would a Jackson know about not being black? /s

Goddamn, why are celebrities so dumb/obsessed with saying stupid shit for attention?

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- And why is the media/people so obsessed with what celebrities have to say about anything? Want to ask something about music, especially the kind of music she is known for? Ask Janet Jackson. For other stuff, maybe not ask and if she offers don't report on it.
  
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- Well, she did have a brother who stopped being technically black I guess...
  
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- Why would you assume this is to get attention?
  
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And I've heard your brother Michael wasn't a pedo but that don't make it true.

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Janet Jackson does have a huge pop legacy. I 'member 80s MTv. I don't know much about her outside of that and the Jackson family and the "wardrobe malfunction", which, who gives af. But she sounds not too bright in this article... yet rich anyways.

“Well, you know what they supposedly said?" Jackson is quoted as saying during the interview in her adopted hometown of London. "She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian."

The author wrote that she responded with a correction, telling Jackson that Harris does have Indian heritage but is also Black.

“[Harris'] father’s white,” Jackson is quoted as saying. “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.”

edit: here is the original article, which is long and i will read soon, but nbc may well have butchered for all i know: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/21/janet-jackson-interview-on-bad-relationships-new-music-and-kamala-harris

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- Listen, I wouldn’t hate to have her as one of us, gods know us white folks could use some better representation in reality. But the lady is clearly black and desi. Idk why some people struggle to understand that there are mixed race people who aren’t white.
  
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It's so easy to just look up a picture of harris' dad.

I thought the bullshit right wing argument was that she only brought up that part of her background for political points, not the even more ludicrous argument that a black man from jamaica is actually white.

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She's moving on from wardrobe to brain malfunctions.

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America politics is basically: this rich celebrity tells me to vote for this guy, but the other rich celebrity tells me to vote for the other guy. Which celebrity do i have to listen to to be on the winning team.

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It doesn't sound like Kamala is getting Janet Jackson's endorsement. I question if she even votes.

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The Jacksons were abused by their parents, it's not shocking that they are all a bunch of mental cases. She's probably best friends with Roseanne Barr.

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Neither is Janet

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