Whoopi Goldberg thinks people should give Janet Jackson “a little grace” over incorrect claims the singer recently repeated about Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity. During a Monday segment of “The View,” the daytime talk-show moderator defended the music icon, who basically questioned the Democratic nominee’s Blackness during an interview with The Guardian published over the weekend. “Janet Jackson is not a political animal,” Goldberg said before noting that the singer is also mourning for her brother Tito Jackson, who died last week .
“Sometimes people get it wrong, and they’re wrong. They made a mistake, they were wrong. It happens,” the moderator continued, adding, “We all do it.
” “So, OK, a little grace for the girl. A little grace for the girl,” Goldberg said about the “Rhythm Nation” artist. Jackson came under fire on social media after she was quoted telling a Guardian reporter that she’d heard Harris is “not Black” after the singer was asked to share her thoughts on the vice president potentially becoming the first Black female president.
“That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian,” Jackson said. Then when the reporter, Nosheen Iqbal, pointed out that Harris is, in fact, both Black and South Asian, the singer responded, “Her father’s white.
That’s what I was told.” “I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days,” she said. “I was told that they discovered her father was white.
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