Vice President Kamala Harris has dismissed former President Donald Trump's attack on her racial identity.
On Wednesday (July 31), Harris appeared at a rally in Texas, where she reacted to Trump's appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago, per the Guardian.
Trump participated in a question and answer session during which he sparred with Black journalists and questioned Harris' Black identity.
“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black," Trump said at Wednesday's NABJ conference.
Following the false claims, Harris called out Trump's "divisiveness and disrespect" during her rally in Houston.
“This afternoon, Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists," Harris said.
“And it was the same old show: the divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me just say, the American people deserve better. The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth. A leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts. We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us – they are an essential source of our strength.”
Harris reacted to Trump's comments at Sigma Gamma Rho’s 60th International Biennial Boulé, the Black sorority’s gathering of its entire membership in Houston, Texas. The vice president, a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, said she was a "proud member of the Divine Nine” during her appearance in Houston.
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