The GOP’s New Racist Attack On Kamala Harris

LOADING ERROR LOADING As the presidential election gets closer and polls show former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in a tight race, conservative pundits are testing out a new line of attack on Harris. At a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre why Harris has “what sounds like a Southern accent.” Advertisement Jean-Pierre quickly shot down Doocy’s question and moved on, but conservative pundits are still treating Doocy’s premise — that Harris, who was born in Northern California, is using a fake accent — as a national incident. “HARRIS SLAMMED FOR ‘FAKE ACCENT’ IN DETROIT SPEECH,” Fox Business blasted in a chyron. “Kamala Harris rallies across the country repeating same speech in different accents,” read one Fox News headline. “Kamala was raised by an Indian mother in Canada, but now she sounds like Fani Willis,” Fox News’ Jesse Watters said on Tuesday night, referring to the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, who is a Black woman. Advertisement But conservatives are instead accusing Harris, who identifies as both Black and Indian, of faking an accent as another way to question her identity. “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,” he said. “So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” His running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who has mixed-race children, defended Trump and claimed he was just trying to say that Harris is a chameleon. For example, former President George W. Bush used cowboy rhetoric to endear himself to Republican voters during his time in office, and in 2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) spoke in Spanish and touted his use of “Spanglish” at a meet-and-greet in the Bronx, New York. In 2007, as a senator from Illinois, Barack Obama delivered a speech, largely using Black dialect, to a mostly Black audience in Hampton, Virginia. When Obama ran for president the following year, the media covered the speech — but it was during his reelection campaign in 2012 that conservative pundits made a big deal of it. Advertisement The Daily Caller ran a video of the full speech, saying it revealed new, “inflammatory” comments. This is not the way Obama talks,” Carlson told Sean Hannity on a Fox News appearance. “At least, it is not the way he has talked in the dozens, the scores of speeches I have watched him give, or public appearances as I’ve seen him make. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-gop-racist_n_66d897e7e4b01763374e227c