People Are Dragging Donald Trump For Not Seeming To Know Biracial People Exist After He Questioned Whether Kamala Harris Is "Indian Or Black"

ALRIGHTY y'all. Yesterday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists conference when he seemed to display confusion over the concept of a person being biracial.

During his sit-down with moderators, Trump was asked: "Some of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have labeled Vice President Kamala Harris — who is the first Black and Asian American woman to serve as Vice President or be on a major party ticket — as a 'DEI hire.' Is that acceptable language to you? And will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to stop it?"

To which Trump immediately responded: "How do you define DEI? Go ahead, how do you define it?"

And when the host answers, "Diversity, equity, and inclusion," Trump pushes back, "Ok yeah, go ahead. Is that what your definition is? Give me a definition... You have to define it."

Then, when pressed to answer the question, Trump said, "I've known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much. And 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. And now she wants to be known as Black. So I don't know. Is she Indian, or is she Black?"

Twitter: @MSNBC

After the interview, Trump doubled down on his false claims surrounding Harris's race via Truth Social, writing, "Crazy Kamala is saying she’s Indian, not Black. This is a big deal. Stone cold phony. She uses everybody, including her racial identity!"

To be clear, Kamala Harris is the daughter of the late Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian biologist who helped advance breast cancer research, and Donald J. Harris, a Jamaican economics professor at Stanford University. She graduated from Howard University, a historically Black college, and her identity as both Black and Indian is indisputable.

In response to Trump questioning her race, Harris addressed an audience in Houston. "It was the same old show — the divisiveness and the disrespect," she said. "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."

Twitter: @KamalaHarris

While Harris was very poignant in her response, the internet couldn't help but be a little more...blunt. Here are a few reactions:

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MSNBC / Via Twitter: @DerrickNAACP

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So yeah. Mixed race people exist.