According to the radical left, if you mispronounce Vice President Kamala Harris’ name, you’re a filthy, awful white supremacist. I know, I know. This is absolute nonsense, but one of the superpowers of the modern-day progressive movement is how they can take almost anything and find a way to transform it into a racial issue. The level of creativity this requires would almost be impressive if it wasn’t so annoying. So how, exactly, do you say Harris’ first name? The Western Journal has you covered.
Since it’s taken on added importance thanks to the veep now being atop the Democratic ticket, just let me set everyone straight: It’s “comma-lah.” Heaven knows that’s important.
This whole thing has been blown out of proportion to the point of people making absolute fools of themselves. People like CNN contributor Michael Eric Dyson who made probably the single greatest mistake of his life when he tried to pull this name-racist nonsense on Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace.
So important, in fact, that CNN contributor and academic Michael Eric Dyson took GOP Rep. Nancy Mace to task over it last month — and then sent weirdly flirty messages to her afterwards. Which are now in the congressional record, thanks to Mace producing the receipts on Thursday.
The big reveal happened during a session of the notoriously raucous House Oversight Committee, in which Mace noted that many liberal eminences — including former President Bill Clinton, the Rev. Al Sharpton and even President Joe Biden — have mispronounced it. However, Mace singled out Dyson, who had a tendentious exchange with Mace on CNN last month in which Dyson said Mace’s mispronunciation of the vice president’s first name perpetuates “the legacy of white disregard” for black individuals.
“When you disrespect Kamala Harris by saying you will call her whatever you want, I know you don’t intend it to be that way, that’s the history and legacy of white disregard for the humanity of black people,” he stated, going on to add: “You’re a white woman disrespecting a black woman.”
What’s that? You’re a sadist who doesn’t value your time so you want to watch the whole exchange? Well, who am I to get in the way of someone chasing their dreams?
Mace then drew attention to the appearance during the hearing on Thursday. What happened next is most certainly going to be one of the most embarrassing moments of Dyson’s life.
“I would like to also enter into the record a screenshot of a text message I received from the esteemed professor from Vanderbilt, Michael Eric Dyson,” Mace stated.
The messages show five photos of the two together taken sometime during the process of her appearance on CNN, and includes the text from Dyson, “Shhh don’t tell anybody. We look good together!” Included were a laughing face and then a kissy-face emoji. After Mace responded with the laugh, Dyson responded: “Well your gorgeousness makes the photos, so there’s that!” Along with that was another smiley-face emoji.
This man is legitimately attempting to spit some game at a Republican congresswoman who, quite frankly, is out of his league. It’s painfully cringe. The secondhand embarrassment is almost too much to bear.
Congresswoman Nancy Mace just officially entered into the Congressional record her messages from an unhinged CNN panel host hitting on her in private after blasting her as a "white supremacist" during on-air meltdown for mispronouncing Kamala's name 🤣
This is the way. pic.twitter.com/Olw5Uf8p7L
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 19, 2024
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) September 19, 2024
https://t.co/fNWUuWgRaL pic.twitter.com/PYM85jVveF
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) September 19, 2024
Listen, if you're going to make a pass AT LEAST be able to bench 225. https://t.co/oxZnK9wYnB
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) September 19, 2024
Dyson is desperately attempting to backpedal on this whole mess and save as much face as possible, thus he is denying he referred to her as a racist, going on to say she’s misrepresenting the text thread. You can see his defense here.
In the caption for the post, Dyson wrote, “I must admit one error about her: although I claimed she wasn’t a racist, she is indeed a sorry racist who is seeking to distort the truth and tell lies, but as you’ll see here, she’s trafficking in untruths.”
“And I guess me calling Rev. Jesse Jackson gorgeous in my article about him in the Chicago Sun Times means I was trying to hit on him? I suppose me calling Rev Freddy Haynes a virile man and a honeyed slice of masculinity means I was hitting on him? Or calling Boris Kodjoe gorgeous meant I was hitting on him? I don’t usually respond to nonsense, but I had to get this off my chest,” he added.
So which is it Dyson? Is she a racist because she mispronounced Harris’ name or is she a racist because she rebuffed your advances? Take a little time to mull it over.
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