Imagine the scene. Donald Trump is giving a speech to a room of *checks notes* Black journalists in Chicago, when he comes out with the following about fellow presidential rival Kamala Harris: “She was always of Indian heritage, 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. So, I don’t know – is she Indian or is she Black?”

The audience bursts into laughter. It’s not quite ‘drink bleach to cure Covid’ levels of out-there, but it’s irritatingly stupid. You might expect Trump to be un-PC or dense about race relations but this line of attack is all too familiar for mixed-race people like me. We’re all too used to people picking apart our identity or trying to get us to choose a side – and Kamala Harris has probably had a lifetime of it.

“Kamala Harris isn’t just Indian or Black, she’s both – why is that such an issue for some people?”