CNN anchor Michael Smerconish tried on Saturday to explain away black men openly questioning Vice President Kamala Harris' racial identity.
Harris' racial identity became headline news last week after former President Donald Trump brought attention to the fact that Harris and the media have emphasized the different aspects of Harris' familial background — her mother is Indian and her father is Jamaican — at different points in her political career.
"She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn black, and now she wants to be known as black," Trump said. "So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she black?"
Those comments sent the media and Democrats into an outrage. But how do everyday black Americans feel?