Vice President Kamala Harris spoke on Wednesday night in Houston at an event for Sigma Gamma Rho, a prominent Black sorority, hours after former President Donald J. Trump questioned her racial identity during a tense appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. She told the crowd his comments showed “divisiveness and disrespect.” She added: “The American people deserve better.”
Mr. Trump had falsely claimed that Ms. Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian heritage and attended a historically Black university, used to identify as Indian and then, “all of a sudden, she made a turn, and she became a Black person.”
