D.L. Hughley Says Janet Jackson Had Malicious Intent In Questioning Kamala's Race

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D.L. Hughley says Janet Jackson knows good and well what she's doing by questioning Kamala Harris' race ... and he thinks Janet wants to hurt the Veep.

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00:00Recently, Janet Jackson was on an interview, she gave comments and she said she had heard

00:07that Kamala Harris was not a black woman, to which you responded and you question why.

00:15She was questioning Janet's race.

00:18Do you think with someone with the platform that Janet has, do you think it is irresponsible

00:23for someone of that caliber to repeat information that they have just heard?

00:29Or Janet said, I just heard it somewhere.

00:30Is that dangerous?

00:31And is that irresponsible?

00:32Well, I think the caveat is for me particularly, I just had to make an apology to the vice

00:37president at the DNC because I too was trucking in misinformation.

00:43And I think that it is very dangerous, but I think that it's more insidious than that.

00:47I think it's easily provable to decide to determine whether her father is black or not.

00:53You could you could you could Google it right now and find out there's a reason you don't

00:56want to know.

00:57And there's a reason that information or finding something like that, you've never

01:00seen that in mainstream or even middle of the road news.

01:04You have to search the furthest reaches of the right wing Internet to find that.

01:07It's the same place where they tell you Haitians eat dogs.

01:11It's the same place they tell you that Obama wasn't born here.

01:14It's the same place where all the scandals live and all these right wing conspiracy theories

01:18live.

01:19And there's a reason that people perpetuate that.

01:22I just wanted to know, first one, it seems ironic that a woman who has had family members

01:28know that for a lot of people, they're questioning whether Kamala is black.

01:33But there are a lot of people who question whether Jackson's want to be.

01:36When you shave out every you, you know, Michael Jackson, you know, a lot of them, they all

01:42got the same nose.

01:43There's a reason for that.

01:44So it's ironic to say this question, somebody's black is why you're doing it through the nose

01:49of a white woman.

01:50That's just ironic to me.

01:52So part of it is humor and part of it is irony.

01:55But I don't think that it is.

01:57I think that it has a malicious intent.

01:59I don't think it's innocent, because I think based on where it comes from and the type

02:03of allegation it was, assertion it was, it's easily provable.

02:07Why would you perpetuate it, particularly at this point in the race?

02:11But when somebody apologizes and you say you find the person who apologizes for the thing

02:16that you said and you don't try to make that thing right, then what about, you know, you

02:20can't double.

02:21You're basically doubling down on what you said.

02:24And to me, it's not what these people on the Internet, it is one black woman saying something

02:32that hurts another black woman.

02:34I don't I don't and I don't get what the purpose, even if that were true, even if her father

02:39was white, which we know he isn't.

02:41What the fuck does that have to do with anything we're talking about?

02:45You went out of your way to have this conversation.

02:47There is a reason that people on the right wing had those conversations, because they

02:51know that that's another way to say he's not like us.

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