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An individual claiming to be Janet Jackson‘s supervisor issued an unauthorized “apology,” based on the singer’s rep.
The assertion from Mo Elmasri purported to handle the singer’s interview with The Guardian, revealed on Sept. 21, during which Janet, 58, questioned whether or not Vice President Kamala Harris is Black.
A rep for Janet advised PEOPLE on Sunday that Elmasri will not be Janet’s supervisor, neither is he affiliated along with her camp. The rep says Randy Jackson is Janet’s supervisor.
The assertion issued earlier on Sunday from Elmasri, whom the singer’s rep says doesn’t characterize Janet in any capability, claimed that the singer was sorry for feedback about Harris “primarily based on misinformation.”
On Saturday, Janet falsely claimed to The Guardian that Harris, 59, is not Black, repeating a right-wing conspiracy idea.
Through the interview with the U.Ok. outlet, it was talked about that Harris might turn out to be the primary Black girl to be elected president. In response, Janet mentioned: “Properly, you understand what they supposedly mentioned?”
“She’s not Black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian,” the singer added. When the reporter responded that Harris is each, Janet falsely claimed, “Her father’s White. That’s what I used to be advised. I imply, I haven’t watched the information in just a few days.”
“I used to be advised that they found her father was White,” she added.
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Janet added that she was uncertain if America is “prepared” for a “girl of colour” to be president. “I don’t know,” she mentioned. “Actually, I don’t wish to reply that as a result of I actually, honestly, don’t know. I feel both method it goes goes to be mayhem.”
“I feel there could be mayhem,” Janet responded when requested if she did not suppose there can be a “peaceable transition of energy.”
Harris’ mom, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan was raised in India. Her father, Donald J. Harris, immigrated from Jamaica to check economics on the College of California in Berkeley, which is the place he met Gopalan.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump beforehand made false claims about Harris’ race on the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference in July, saying that “she turned a Black particular person.”
“She was all the time of Indian heritage, and he or she was solely selling the Indian heritage,” Trump claimed on the time. “I did not know she was Black, till various years in the past, when she occurred to show Black, and now she desires to be generally known as Black. So I do not know, is she Indian or is she Black?”
“However you understand what, I respect both one, I respect both one, however she clearly would not, as a result of she was Indian all the best way, after which rapidly she made a flip, and he or she went — she turned a Black particular person,” Trump continued.