The music icon acknowledged that she hadn't "watched the news in a few days" before calling the vice president's identity into question.

Harris is both Black and Indian. Her father, Donald J. Harris, came to the U.S. from Jamaica. Her mother, the late Shyamala Gopalan, came to the U.S. from India. They both moved to the U.S. to study at the University of California, Berkeley, which is where they met in 1962.

"It's clear that Janet Jackson has been reading things in the dark corners of the internet and that makes me very sad," one social media user wrote.