US election 2024: how Trump and Vance are trying to weaponise Kamala Harris’s multiracial identity

By Rhianna Garrett, PhD Candidate and Global Coordinator of the Critical Mixed Race Studies Executive Board, Loughborough University

I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now, she wants to be known as Black.

This was what former president and current Republican party presidential candidate Donald Trump told the National Association of Black Journalists convention on July 31. It was a revealing insight into how he viewed his rival Kamala Harris’s multiracial identity.

During a heated…

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