Posted on 08/03/2024 4:22:51 AM PDT by Libloather
Kamala Harris has range. She can grill nominees for the Supreme Court or meet with foreign dignitaries, then pivot to hosting a Diwali celebration or dancing enthusiastically alongside an HBCU-styled marching band.
It is a dexterity that Harris, the first Black woman and Asian American to serve as vice president, developed as a person of color to navigate the corridors of power or Main Street in a nation where race and identity influence how one is received or embraced.
Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, is an adroit code-switcher, a term that can include deliberately adjusting one’s speech style and expression to optimize relatability and ensure she gets a message across.
Former President Donald Trump, during a contentious interview session at a meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, showed no familiarity with the concept. He implied that Harris is inauthentic for embracing all aspects of her heritage. His failure to recognize code-switching also speaks to a prevailing belief that whiteness, often correlated with speaking in plainly enunciated English, is the default in our politics and democracy.
“We need to be celebrating our whole selves, which means we need to celebrate all of our identities,” said Christine Chen, co-founder and executive director of APIAVote, a nonpartisan civic engagement organization focused on the Asian American Pacific Islander community.
**SNIP**
Harris doesn’t need to code-switch to prove she is a Black and Indian American woman; she was born that way.
Shereen Marisol Meraji, former co-host of the award-winning NPR podcast “Code Switch,” said Harris’ identity is layered and can still be challenging to navigate in a nation that once encouraged multiracial people to favor one identity over another.
“If you walk through the world as I have, where I’m trying very much to embrace both sides of myself...
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Kamala Harris is a Section I, Amendment XIV citizen at birth (i.e., Birthright citizen) by the state’s plenary power, not by natural right. That is to say, she is a naturalized citizen at birth rather than a natural born citizen.
The Democrats see us all as being mere subjects to the ruling class rather than citizens by consent in a constitutional Republic.
Also known as shape shifting...
“ Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, is an adroit code-switcher, a term that can include deliberately adjusting one’s speech style and expression to optimize relatability and ensure she gets a message across.”
I other words, being a total fake for her own benefits and having no morals.
I don’t change the way I talk when I speak publicly. It doesn’t help with relatability at all if you are already genuine.
AP = American Pravda. Propaganda arm of DNC and all other “weird” leftest cabals and organizations.
Fraud is now “code-switching”.
omg
Decode this before voting:
Nihad Awad: “Today, we applaud the members of Congress, who could have been in the House of People, applauding a war criminal, but they decided to boycott him. We appreciate these people and we thank them. If the Vice President Kamala Harris found a way to skip the criminal’s speech, what about those people who are planning to go there? Shame on them!”
Linda Sarsour: “The reason why Kamala Harris is not presiding on Benjamin Netanyahu the war criminal’s speech in Congress today, is because of you. The reason why dozens of Members of Congress are boycotting the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu is because of you.
“Yes, the people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, had the right to defend themselves,” said Awad. “Yes, Israel as an occupying power does not have that right to self-defense.”
https://jewishinsider.com/2023/12/nihad-awad-council-american-islamic-relations-israel-gaza-terror-attacks/
https://x.com/memrireports/status/1732712958281629864
She is an Irish spear chucking dot head. Very confusing. She doesn’t know whether to get drunk, car jack your ass or do the downward facing dog pose.
Harris stated, “We also recognize just as it has been in the United States, for Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way of its impact has been the pandemic.”
She added another mystifying stanza, saying, “So to that end, we are announcing today also that we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential to, I believe, what is necessary to strengthen not only the issue of public health but also the economy.”
Radio host Buck Sexton blasted the word salad on Twitter, comparing it to that of a smug college student who never read the assigned the material. He tweeted, “She reminds one of the student[s] in college who never did the reading, but insisted on talking a lot about it in class anyway, and always thought he/she was brilliantly fooling everyone. But nobody was fooled.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/most-awkward-embarrassing-kamala-harris-word-salads-2022
She told Costa, “I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just settled.”
Doing his best to contribute to the conversation, Costa replied, “Clearly were not,” to which Harris gave another somewhat awkward answer. “No, that’s right,” Harris said, adding, “And that’s why I do believe that we are living, sadly, in real unsettled times.”
I don’t think Bill Maher understands it either. He and John Stewart totally skewers Kamala. Both think she’s a phony and fake.
Also known as pandering.
KH has a bunch of talents. She is cute, but she is not particularly bright and she does not know how to wield power. Nor is she articulate.
Agreed. And that's why the whining and foot stomping about the media being unfair and for Dems, blah, blah, blah is non-productive.
President Trump knows this. And his campaign has and will continue to need to take the media bias for Dems and Harris into account.
Code switching isn’t a leftist term; the fool who wrote this article is wildly misusing it. It refers to a situation where a person can speak two languages or dialects, and then uses the appropriate language/dialect in a given situation. Harris doesn’t speak Southern English, and probably not black English either. She is not code switching, she is pandering. When George W would slip into Texas drawl, he was code switching. When Hilary said she wasn’t no ways tard, sh wasn’t code switching, she was pandering. When Bill Clinton slipped into Arkansas dialect he was code switching. You have to actually be able to speak the dialects in question to code switch. Harris probably doesn’t since she didn’t grow up in an American black community or the US south.
😂😂😂😂😂😂. Oh, okay.
A “code-switcher”? I did switch from Pascal many years ago.
Aka, shameless and transparent PANDERING that highly insults normal people.
“Que mala” Harris ain’t authentically black like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, who are actually descendants of former African American slaves, and believe they have a legitimate gripe with white Southerners from 160 years ago.
“Que mala” has no such history. She is only American by birthright, and could not pass the test given to every applicant as part of the process of being granted naturalized citizenship. Her formative years were spent in Canada, and she only returned to attend college.
And if there is anyone in American politics known for her ability to get a message across it has to be Commie-la.
Code switching is largely switching between how you learned to speak as a child versus what society expects. In my case it is primarily remembering that the g in the -ing ending of the word must be pronounced. I'm going to work, not I'm goin' to work. Commie-la did not grow up in the 'hood. Whenever she speaks with a black American accent it is an affectation, not code-switching.
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