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The View led its first show of the week on Monday with the controversy surrounding Janet Jackson’s false claims about Kamala Harris’ race. And Jackson got some unlikely support from moderator Whoopi Goldberg.
Jackson drew widespread condemnation over the weekend for echoing Donald Trump’s false claims about Harris’ heritage. “She’s not Black,” Jackson said in an interview with The Guardian. “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.”
“No matter how you feel about celebs speaking out politically, is it OK for somebody to say, you know, I made a mistake?” Goldberg asked.
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