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GOP Rep. Nancy Mace Mispronounces Kamala Harris’ Name, Says She’ll Say It ‘Any Way I Want’

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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Kent Nishimura / Getty

Truthfully, I didn’t think it was possible for white conservatives to be more dedicated than they already were when it comes to showing off the boundlessness of their collective caucasity—then Vice President Kamla Harris became the Democratic nominee for president.

We’ve all seen it: the ramping up of racist “DEI hire” remarks and desperate, false and illogical narratives about how she “slept her way to the top,” the questioning of her Blackness by white people who can’t find their own highway, let alone their lane—the sheer display of unmitigated whiteness has been unrelenting. This brings us to GOP Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.).

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On Thursday, Mace participated in a CNN panel discussion along with CNN’s Abby Phillip, Democratic strategist Keith Boykin, and famed professor in African American studies at Vanderbilt University Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, who tried his best to check Mace on her repeated mispronunciation of Vice President Kamala Harris’ first name—a name that has had white Republicans in a perpetual chokehold since 2020, when former GOP senator David Perdue stood in front of an audience of MAGA Caucasians who laughed and applauded when he called Harris, “Kah-mah-la or Kah-ma-la or Kamala-mala-mala, I don’t know, whatever.”

Mace, however, decided that instead of correcting herself and respecting Harris at least enough to pronounce her name correctly, she would just continue to be a super white ultra-Karen and assert her Caucasian privilege to say her name “any way that I want to.”

When Dyson called Mace’s refusal to address Harris by her actual name “disgusting,” the congresswoman pivoted to an attack on Harris’ gender, saying she “doesn’t know what a woman is.”

“You know what, you know what’s disgusting to women is her disrespect of women,” Mace said. “She doesn’t know what a woman is.”

“White women don’t have the ability to tell Black women who paid the price of blood to make this country what it is to tell them they’re not real women,” Dyson said, noting that her disrespect of Harris is part of “the history and legacy of white disregard for the humanity of Black people.”

“Oh, so now you’re calling me racist?” Mace shot back, to which Dyson replied that he didn’t say she was racist.

Well, I’ll say it: Rep. Nancy Mace is racist.

Here’s what these delusional, disrespectful and disingenuous white people are pretending isn’t the case: “Kamala” is not a difficult name to pronounce. If you can pronounce “Pamela,” you can pronounce “Kamala.” But even if it was a difficult name to pronounce, the correct thing to do is to learn how, because it’s still their name. (Also, if all else fails, they could just refer to the vice president by her surname, you know, the way people do for every white man in politics or in professional environments.)

Mace continues to defiantly mispronounce the name throughout the conversation even after being corrected repeatedly, indicating that Dyson was correct and she simply didn’t respect the humanity of a Black woman at even the most basic level.

Anyway, when the conversation veered over the the subject of Donald Trump’s racist attacks on Harris during his infamous NABJ appearance, Mace was less forthcoming. Suddenly, all of that Karen confidence turned timid, to the point where she was out here pretending she wasn’t aware of what he had said.

From HuffPost:

Mace, who was later asked by CNN’s Abby Phillip whether Trump should stop suggesting that Harris is “not actually Black” when he questioned her racial identity last month, squirmed as she dodged the “yes or no” question.

“Well, I mean, I, I, I didn’t hear him say it, I didn’t hear what he said about her race, I’m not gonna weigh in on her race,” said Mace, who weighed in on other aspects of Harris’ identity earlier on the panel.

She later added, “Well, she’s of mixed race. She’s of mixed race.”

Phillip later said that it doesn’t “take that much courage” to say Trump’s comments were “out of bounds.”

Democratic strategist Keith Boykin then pressed Mace to “just say yes” before saying that she was in a “cult” with her leader being the former president.

It was at that moment that Mace managed to lean even further into her already inflated Karen identity by invoking a Karen’s favorite love language—fake victimhood.

After Boykin, a Black man, simply implored her to stop playing around in Black people’s faces and just admit she knew what Trump had said and that it was racist and inappropriate, she responded, “The fact that you talk to women this way is ridiculous.”

Bruh—what?

Boykin didn’t say anything remotely disrespectful to Mace. He didn’t shout at her. He didn’t purposely mangle her name. He didn’t imply that she wasn’t a real woman or say she “doesn’t know what a woman is.” Boykin didn’t hit Mace with the same kind of sexist and racist attacks Trump levels at Black woman journalists and female journalists in general, such as calling them “losers” and “stupid” and making crude references about their appearances and menstrual cycles. All Boykins did was challenge Mace to be truthful—while being a Black man.

“You just talked about a Black woman that way,” Boykin pointed out to Mace, to which she responded, “In what way? She doesn’t know what a woman is.”

I mean, we already knew self-awareness is a MAGA conservative’s Kryptonite (along with facts, honesty, kneeling during the national anthem, the Black National Anthem and coming up with ways to attack Black opponents without turning their public events into impromptu Klan rallies), but Mace was simply doing her best to win the Olympic gold medal in unabashed caucasity during this discussion.

Remember that time Rep. Jasmine Crockett said Mace and the rest of her ilk need to “check their white privilege at the door,” and MAGA America lost its collective mind?

I’m just sayin’—they keep on proving how right she was.

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