Posted on 04/08/2019 1:48:40 PM PDT by Libloather
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continued to defend herself against claims promoted by Donald Trump, Jr. and others that she changes her accent to pander to minority audiences.
In a string of Saturday evening tweets, the first-term Democrat wrote that her habit of "code-switching" was informed by years of navigating professional and social environments as a woman of color.
"Next time youre told straight hair is 'unprofessional' and that speaking like your parents do is 'uneducated,' then you can complain about code-switching," she wrote, referring to the practice of changing speech patterns based on environment. "Code-switching is a tool communities learn when theyre told their voice, appearance and mannerisms are unprofessional.
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Her Saturday remarks came after commentators accused her of adopting a southern-like drawl while speaking at Rev. Al Sharptons National Action Network convention in New York on Friday.
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Appoint her Czarina of Puerto Rico.
Give Puerto Rico to Spain.
Problem solved.
If conservatives did such a thing, it would be called cultural appropriation.
To AOC: Just be who you really are. It’s more honest.
Can she do a video on how to do the Bannana foe fanna song?
Hmmm? Just let a conservative anglo roll out the “code switching” on some latinos and watch for leftist hysteria.
Intellectual masturbation.
kinda like Bartending 1 minute, and 5 minutes later being a Stripper/Hooker.
Now it’s glockenspiel, whistling, and acoustic euk on every dang commercial I hear on radio and tv. Ugh!
Is this nitwit saying that because so many blacks don’t like Hispanics that she had to “code switch” by imitating black speech patterns at Al Sharpton’s shakedown party?
And “code switching” is her euphemism for “pandering”?
Woman of color, my a$$. She’s lighter skinned than I am, and since when has straight hair been unprofessional? Somebody smarter than her just taught her a new phrase, and she had to use it in a sentence. What a dingbat. She got caught black-voice pandering, and she cannot let it go.
Going for the Irish vote?
Who knew?
So she wants reparation money?
I don't think she's capable on either count - even if she employs verbal blackface with D batteries.
“Say what one more G/D time! Do they speak AOC in what!?”
she is a phoney and very sneaky....she bears close watching...
she is a phoney and very sneaky....she bears close watching...
If you be referring to Alexandra Occasionally Coherent it sure does sound just like the dumb one we heard about.
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