#new Kamala Harris is getting mocked for talking with a ‘Black Accent’ while telling Black women to be more selfish
It happened during a recent panel discussion hosted by “The Root”
Harris was talking, in what critics say was a noticeable change in the way she normally talks, using urban slang and rhythm that critics have long called a “blaccent” or fake black accent.
Harris is once again being accused of code-switching when speaking to black audiences, in what Republicans call inauthentic pandering.
Some critics have pointed out that Harris’s mother is from India, while questions continue to swirl around her father, Donald Harris.
Some claim he is Irish , some say that he is half Irish (his father’s name is Oscar Joseph), and some claim he is Jamaican black, however Kamala has acknowledged her Irish ancestry.
Donald Harris himself wrote in 2018 that his family descends from Hamilton Brown, an Irish slave owner from Antrim County who moved to Jamaica in the 1700s.
Her father’s 2018 essay details how their family line owned slaves, which he described as part of “the complicated realities of our family history.”
Conservatives note that Harris rarely talks about her Irish slave-owner ancestors or her Indian mother when talking to black audiences, instead she leans into black cultural references.
