Keith Boykin: 10 big lies Trump and the GOP tell about Kamala Harris

“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black,& examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election. Donald Trump spoke to the National Association of Black Journalists, and it went exactly as you might expect—a hot mess. After attacking ABC reporter Rachel Scott as “rude,” Trump threw out a flurry of lies and misinformation about Vice President Kamala Harris. So, allow me to debunk some of his lies, and a few others, about Kamala Harris. She’s not really Black. “I& didn’t know she was Black& until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black,” Trump told NABJ, “and now she wants to be known as Black.”Not true. “I’m Black, and I’m proud of being Black.& I was born Black. I will die Black,” Harris told the Breakfast Club in 2019. She didn’t change her identity. Her father was always Jamaican. And she’s always been connected to the Black community, which is why she graduated from Howard University and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. & She’s a failed border czar. “She’s the& worst border czar& in the history of the world,” Trump...