Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign was hit with a major bomb this week after a famous singer and movie star made an astonishing claim against the vice president.  

One major controversy surrounding Harris’ campaign has been her ethnicity. While the vice president is currently running to be the first female Black president, she has claimed to be Indian for most of her political career. 

Legendary singer Janet Jackson reacted to the controversy during an interview with The Guardian, where she was asked how she felt about the U.S. having its first female Black president.

Jackson, the sister of the famous Michael Jackson, insisted that Harris is not Black. The singer also wrongly claimed that the vice president has a White father. 

“Well, you know what they supposedly said?” the singer said. “She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian. Her father’s white. That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days. I was told that they discovered her father was white.”

Contrary to the singer’s claim, Harris’ father is a Jamaican economics professor named Donald J. Harris. Donald married Dr Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian-born cancer researcher, and the couple gave birth to the vice president in 1964. 

Conservative podcaster Candace Owens supported Jackson’s claim in an X post. Candace, a fierce Harris critic, maintained that the vice president is not Black.

“Good for Janet. Kamala Harris is literally not black. Her dad is Indian, but grew up in Jamaica,” Candace wrote in the X post. “Kamala now avoids the question of her ethnicity altogether.”

The controversy surrounding Harris’ ethnicity still remains a contentious issue. According to Routers, the vice president’s birth certificate was shared in posts online. Many used the documents as proof that she is not Black. 

The birth certificate lists her mother’s birthplace as India and her mother’s race as Caucasian. Her father’s birthplace, on the other hand, was listed as Jamaica and his race as Jamaican.

In a report that came out in August on Fox News, a group of Black male voters in Pennsylvania told a local reporter that they do not consider Harris to be a Black woman.