CORTEZ GIVES TWITTER A LESSON ON 'CODE SWITCHING' AFTER CONSERVATIVES CRITICIZE HER ACCENT

Newsweak ^ | 4/07/19 | GILLIAN EDEVANE

[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 you‘re 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 they’re told their voice, appearance and mannerisms are “unprofessional.”

**SNIP**

Her Saturday remarks came after commentators accused her of adopting a southern-like drawl while speaking at Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention in New York on Friday.

[a fool in paradise]

"Ancient Chinese secret, huh?"

[a fool in paradise]

Commie folkies hated rock until they subverted it.
Same with punk music (which began as an affront to the hippies)

[BTerclinger]

Al Sharpton, ladies and gentlemen, AL SHARPTON, they all come to kiss his ... ring...

[nicollo]

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.

Was waiting for a post like this, thank you!

And, yep, this one is a total fraud. My wife, darker than AOC and actually both black and latin, unlike AOC, and who knows exactly when to straighten her hair and when to go curly, and who never in her life said "can I axe you?" and who never pandered to anyone and instead tells them straight whether they like it or not, is a far, far, far more successful and impactful human being than this fraud.

Me, I'm just an ignorant white boy who married up, but I know a fraud when I see one.

[a fool in paradise]

didn’t Bananarama do that?

Or was that Otis Day and the Nights “Shamalamadingdong”?

[BTerclinger]

I bow to you, sir!

[a fool in paradise]

Obama “went street” for his book on tape:

Obama 2012 Campaign Ad - Buy Your Own Damn Fries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92baDJVZcCo

[kaehurowing]

She ain’t no ways tired.

[a fool in paradise]

Does AOC carry hot sauce in her purse when she panders to black audiences?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB5mMAqnWKY

[ifinnegan]

Yep.

[kearnyirish2]

As John Cardillo from “America Talks Live” said: “This is what blackface looks like”.

[Ezekiel]

You’re on a roll.

[Tammy8]

Yes if Beto was an R he wouldn’t have even been elected dog catcher. The left would have roasted him for being a fake hispanic and the Rs would have dropped him like a dirty shirt.

[Antioch]

How is Occasional Cowfarts a “person of Color?” She’s Hispanic, so her ancestry is Southwestern Europe, which is pretty analogous to Trump’s Central European heritage. Their ancestors were separated by 1500 miles and shared a common Judeo Christian culture. Spanish people and Germanic people are Caucasian. She should stop invoking this bs race card.

[JudgemAll]

Alexandria Ocasio Chupakabra. Lmao

[Fiddlstix]

Thanks. I need to come up with a stand alone Alexandria Ocasio Chupakabra meme

[atc23]

Haha She’s Brooklyn hipster flipster from very Westchester. she’s the kind of twit that gets beat on in the Bronx

[atc23]

Anybody else ever hear the term “code switching “? Me neither. She made that shit up.

[GingisK]

Most people call it “acting”.

[Yaelle]

Those were actually quite funny