[News] Harris calls Trump’s remarks on her racial heritage "the same old show"

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Kamala Harris responded to Donald Trump’s comments Wednesday about her racial heritage, saying it was “the same old show” and that the “American people deserve better.” “Today, we were given yet another reminder. This afternoon, Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, and it was the same old show, the divisiveness and the disrespect. Let me just say, the American people deserve better,” the vice president said in remarks at a Sigma Gamma Rho sorority event in Houston. She continued: “The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth. A leader who does not respond to hostility and anger with 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.” Earlier Wednesday, Trump said at a panel discussion at the gathering of Black journalists in Chicago that Harris “happened to turn Black” a few years ago, claiming that “all of a sudden, she made a turn” in her identity. Harris did not specifically respond to Trump’s false claims, which he made after an interviewer asked him whether he agreed with Republicans on Capitol Hill who have characterized Harris as a “DEI hire.” “Ours is a fight for the future,” the vice president told the audience in Houston. “And it is a fight for freedom.” Harris’ late mother was Indian and her father is Jamaican; both immigrated to the United States. Harris was born in Oakland, California, and attended a historically Black university, Howard University, in Washington. She is the first female, first Black and first Asian American vice president.

Vice President Kamala Harris made what she referred to as the “full-on attack” on fundamental freedom and rights a central part of her remarks Wednesday in Houston. “Across our nation, we are witnessing a full-on attack on hard-fought, hard-won fundamental freedoms and rights,” Harris said at a gathering of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority. “The freedom to vote, the freedom to be safe from gun violence, the freedom to live without fear of bigotry and hate, the freedom to love who you love - openly and with pride, the freedom to learn and acknowledge America’s true and full history and the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to,” the vice president said. Harris took on a lead role in championing abortion rights for the Biden administration after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Earlier this year, she launched a “reproductive freedoms tour” to multiple states. The tour included a stop at an abortion clinic in Minnesota, marking the first time a sitting US president or vice president is believed to have visited an abortion provider. Harris’ remarks in Houston followed her attendance at a fundraiser in the city that a campaign official said earlier had raised $2.5 million. The Sigma Gamma Rho sorority is part of the Divine Nine, a group of nine historically Black fraternities and sororities. Harris herself is a member of a Divine Nine sorority – Alpha Kappa Alpha.

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