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During an August 15 segment on CNN’s “NewsNight with Abby Phillip,” Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson accused Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) of racism for allegedly mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris’s first name.
On Thursday, Mace fired back during a House Oversight Committee hearing, pointing out that several Democrats have also mispronounced Harris’s name, exposing the outrage as selective and performative.
She then dropped a bomb by revealing that Dyson had made it clear that he had the opposite of a problem with her in a private conversation:
The Daily Caller reported that the congresswoman criticized the creepy professor, claiming that many “woke” complaints are simply political theater:
“My colleagues across the aisle said that those that can not pronounce Kamala’s name correctly are elementary aged children. I would like to enter into the record an article by Newsweek saying Bill Clinton pronounces Kamala Harris name wrong during [his] DNC speech,” Mace said.
“Bill Clinton along with Al Sharpton, rapper Lil John — let’s not forget that Joe Biden can’t say her name right, neither can Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor,” Mace continued. “And this morning on ‘Morning Joe,’ Joan Baez called her a camel. So I don’t want to hear it. It’s fake outrage.”
The lawmaker then continued as she held up alleged screenshots of text messages sent to her from Dyson, stating he had called her “gorgeous” after claiming she parroted white supremacist language.
“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 after my CNN interview, begged me for photos. In this text, he says, after calling me racist on CNN, ‘shh don’t tell anybody, we look good together.’ And sent me a kissy emoji,” Mace said.
Mace recently gained attention for her bill addressing domestic violence by illegal immigrants. Her Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, which passed the House with bipartisan support, aims to deport illegal immigrants convicted of sex offenses or domestic violence.
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