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Intro Donald Trump has questioned the racial identity of his Democratic rival for the US Presidency carela Harris Miss Harris's long self identified as both a black and South Asian Asian American but speaking at a convention for black journalists Mr Trump said she had become a black person all of a sudden I've Trumps comments known her a long time indirectly not directly very much and she was always was 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 she has always identifed as a black woman I respect either one I respect either one but she obviously doesn't because she was Indian all the way and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went she became a black person just to be clear sir do you believe I think somebody should look into that when you ask a continue in a very hostile nasty town Trump there well KLA Harris responded to those remarks at an event in Kamala Harris response Texas 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 and let me just say the American people deserve better the American people deserve [Music] better 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 KLA Harris there at an event in Texas