The remarks evoked painful memories for the growing population of Americans who identify as more than one race.
By Robert Klemko, Silvia Foster-Frau and Emmanuel Felton, The Washington PostSteve Majors in Takoma Park, Md., on Sept. 22, 2021.
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, far left, participates in a discussion at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair in Chicago, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Moderators are Rachel Scott, center, Kadia Goba Semafor, second from the right, and Harris Faulkner, far right.
“Trump was really relying on stereotypes of multiracial people as disloyal and inauthentic, as not having a core identity, and stoking people’s suspicions of multiracial people,” said Nitasha Tamar Sharma, a professor of Black and Asian American studies at Northwestern University. Harris responded to Trump’s remarks Wednesday night at a convention of Black sororities, saying it was “the same old show” of “divisiveness” and “disrespect.”
Louis Cook, 19, who identifies as White and Asian, said it was difficult to grow up biracial even in a diverse place like California’s Bay Area. His friends would often use his identity as a punchline. More and more young Americans know just how complicated that can be. Nearly a third of multiracial Americans are younger than 18, according to the 2020 Census. Many of those interviewed by The Post said it took years for them to get to a place where they felt confident in their identity.
The former president has doubled down in questioning Harris’s identity, reposting a message by far-right activist Laura Loomer this past week that included a photo of Harris’s birth certificate that showed that her father listed his race as “Jamaican.”Vice President Harris at campaign event in Atlanta on Tuesday.
“It’s using something that’s divisive within the community to his own advantage,” Ramchandani said. “He was saying to those Black journalists, ‘She’s not one of you,’ and that is not his place to say.”
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