Rapper and model Amber Rose is facing criticism from the Biden-Harris Campaign following her speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday.
Rose who was once against Trump said in her speech:
“I’m no politician and I don’t wanna be, but I do care about the truth, and the truth is that the media has lied to us about Donald Trump,” she said. “I know this because, for a long time, I believed those lies.”
She continued, “I believed the left-wing propaganda that Donald Trump was a racist” and “I realized Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care if you’re Black, white, gay or straight. It’s all love. And that’s when it hit me: These are my people. This is where I belong.”
Biden-Harris campaign’s senior spokesperson Sarafina Chitika spoke against Rose,
“Amber Rose is right about one thing: research is important. Since we’re talking about facts, we brought receipts: Rose said American families were better off when Trump was president – and if she’s talking about his billionaire donors, she’s right.”
“But for Black communities, it’s the opposite story: Black unemployment, Black uninsured rates, and crime rates skyrocketed under Trump’s leadership because the truth is simple – Donald Trump doesn’t care about us, our lives, or our livelihoods.”
She concluded, “A vote for Donald Trump is a vote to line the pockets of millionaires like Rose at the expense of actual Black communities, and those are the facts.”
MSNBC host Joy Reid also criticized Rose’s speech saying:
“I don’t want to say she’s Black because she has said she’s not, so I don’t want to say this Black woman,” said Reid, about Rose calling herself both white and Black over the years.
“This woman who is of whatever race that she has claimed, she’s said she’s not Black, but (the RNC) brought somebody whose whole career is based in Black culture.”
Reid added: “I don’t know anyone who takes their political cues from Amber Rose, but just in case you do, you might want to duplicate doing your own research because she might not have done it thoroughly.”
After the post, Rose wrote in a Tuesday post on X:
“Hi @JoyAnnReid I’ve never said I wasn’t black I said I identify as biracial. I’m not going to invalidate my white father to make you feel more comfortable. Stop being a race-baiter ur president does enough race-baiting for all of us.”
