I don't want to shock any readers, so be advised that this post about Jemele Hill contains accusations of racism. In case you missed it, Fox News' Peter Doocy on Tuesday asked Karine Jean-Pierre what was up with Kamala Harris' accent at a Labor Day rally in Detroit. Doocy described it as a "southern accent," but this was Detroit, and Foghorn Leghorn of Loony Tunes went viral after people heard Harris. Check it out:
Kamala Harris just brought back the “Detroit speak”
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) September 2, 2024
So freaking cringe and fake pic.twitter.com/9kXCRXEdy2
What is that? She already did her southern accent at a rally in Atlanta. Harris, who was born in California and went to school in Montreal, Quebec, sure has picked up a lot of accents. Here's three minutes of her "code-switching."
WATCH: Over 3 minutes of Kamala Harris using different phony accents throughout the years.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 2, 2024
Despite spending her childhood in Berkley, California and Montreal, Canada, Kamala uses what she thinks is a Detroit accent, what she thinks a southern accent in Georgia, a French accent,… pic.twitter.com/A07WzWMGkr
Atlantic contributing writer Hill says that there ain't no way Doocey wanted to say "southern accent." What did he want to say, then? Be specific.
1) Ain’t no way Doocy wanted to say “southern accent.”
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 3, 2024
2) Again this entire conversation around VP Harris’ dialect is rooted in how little *some* white folks know about Black people.
3) This is shitty journalism. https://t.co/2p929k3YpR
So this was Harris' black accent coming through in Detroit? Is that what Hill's trying to say? And *some* white folks don't know how Harris' dialect is rooted in her black background?
For gods sake, you can’t possibly be sticking up for Kamala on this. She’s as fake as they come. Wake up!
— Josh Barnett-AZ (@BarnettforAZ) September 3, 2024
You're mad that Doocy didn't describe her put-on accent correctly?
— Jaelando❌ (@JaelandoTweets) September 3, 2024
What he calls it isn't important. Why is she faking accents?
You gonna claim KAMALA was code switching?
— TheBitchIsBack😋 (@hotnostril) September 4, 2024
😂😂🤣🤣
Her parents were PhD’s. She grew up with her Indian mom, in Canada, in an affluent WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD!
GTFOH
I know pandering when I see it. What she did was condescending and BLATANTLY RACIST!
We just heard Harris speak at the Democratic National Convention, and it didn't sound anything like this. Yes, I know about code-switching, but it's always had a negative connotation, as in blacks having to talk "white" to advance in society.
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Why is Kamala so fake? She sounds like Hillary. Wake up.
— Joel Schamber (@JoelSchamber) September 4, 2024
Hillary Clinton's Southern Baptist preacher accent was really bad. Have you noticed how Donald Trump never adopts fake accents to pander to the crowd he's addressing?
1) You can read minds?
— Angela (@AngelaM39710892) September 4, 2024
2) Shut up
3) A good journalist exposes fakes and frauds.
She's code switching. We all see and hear it. She's pandering to whoever she talking to at the moment. A fake and a fraud. A user.
And you're ok with that. 🤡🤡🤡
You’re being played and letting all who read this know that.
— Buck Johnson (@buckrebel) September 3, 2024
To be honest, I thought it was a waste of a question by Doocy and would have left it alone. Still, the reason he brought it up is because that clip from Detroit had gone viral for exactly that reason. No one was passing around the clip to promote her policies.
Joe Biden's probably the most racist president in our lifetimes — I won't even begin to get into some of his choice quotes — but even he tries to code-switch, telling a black audience that if they vote for Trump then "they ain't black." And Mitt Romney was "gonna put y'all back in chains." No joke. And I've never heard Hill criticize him.
Harris is a fake. If Hill wants to defend that, that's her business.
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