"[Trump's] not mixed race, so he doesn't know how she feels about who she is. That wasn't cool," Sumaya said. "She should have been like, 'I am mixed race, and I'm proud of it. No one can tell me I'm not or who I am.' It would have been really great for her to say, 'I'm both.'"
"People really don't understand that you can have two identities that are meshed into one, that you can embody being Black and Indian, that you can have both of those," added Singh.
"I think that was a moment for [Harris] to really speak to that. She's not embracing and reaching out to the mixed-race community. She's not like putting that at the forefront: 'Yes, I'm one of you, and I see you.'"
"The Sidibe-Singh family celebrates the fusion of Black and South Asian identities not only at home but in their professional lives. Singh is trained in Indian dance, Sidibe is a West African drummer..."
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