Dems seem to always be ready to call conservatives and Republicans racist. It’s their go-to remark when dealing with anyone that disagrees with them. Recently they have been reserving this insult for Trump and anyone who follows him, but now they have found a way to call just about anyone a racist. Dems are now claiming that anyone who does not pronounce Kamala Harris’s first name correctly is racist. Yea, because it is such a common name…
“Harris’ supporters say the pattern amounts to a deliberate effort by Trump and his allies to portray Harris — the daughter of immigrants — as someone who does not belong at the top ranks of politics. The mispronunciations follow a string of attacks that include racist and sexist memes and questioning whether Harris, who was born in California, is eligible to serve as vice president because her mother was Indian and her father Jamaican. (Constitutional scholars and other legal experts say there is no question that she is eligible.)
“It is an effort to diminish her,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund. ”It’s designed to signal difference.”
Trump campaign officials did not immediately respond to questions about the errors.
To be sure, Harris isn’t the only politician who has watched other politicians and voters trip over her name. Former President Barack Obama, whose father was from Kenya, used to crack jokes about being a “skinny kid with a funny name.” Former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, whose father was from Malta, went mostly by “Pete” — though his campaign made posters, chants and T-shirts with the pronunciation “Boot-Edge-Edge.”
Even Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden slipped up and mispronounced the first “a” in Kamala during his speech introducing her as his running mate, but he quickly repeated her name with the correct pronunciation.
Harris supporters say there is a difference between someone who makes an honest mistake and wants to correct it and people who knowingly mispronounce her name, or who don’t care enough to get it right.
But this is not a new problem as even she first ran for Senate “her campaign produced a video with small children demonstrating the proper way to say her first name.”
Clearly the Dems are just being oversensitive here. People are trying thier best it’s not as if they are just calling her camel or mocking her name. These Dems will twist anything.
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