Kamala Harris debuts ANOTHER bizarre accent at the black caucus dinner
Kamala Harris left listeners stunned when her infamously volatile accent changed again Saturday night in front of an audience of Black politicians in Washington DC
The Democratic candidate appeared eager to curry favor as she addressed the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation at the Phoenix Awards Dinner.
“Hello to all my Divine Nine brothers and sisters!” she called out to the guests. “And to all my HBCU brothers and sisters.”
“Kamala Harris is whatever you want her to be depending on the audience she’s speaking to,” one viewer wrote on X.
‘But I do compliment her on being able to adapt her accent so well for such an audience!’
The vice president appeared eager to curry favor with her audience at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner Saturday night
But many on social media were unimpressed with her attempt to appear relatable
The vice president, who spent her childhood in San Francisco and Montreal, has long been accused of changing her accent to suit the audiences she speaks to.
She caused a stir during her 2020 campaign when, in a languid Southern drawl, she livened up a Florida rally by saying, “We’ll tell them we were hanging out with Kamala in a parking lot that Saturday afternoon.”
In July, she showed off her Dixie accent again at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, when she told her audience, “You all helped us win in 2020 and we’re going to do it again in 2024.”
In 2021, she was even accused of having a distinctive French accent when she spoke to scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Her latest change came just days after Michigan teachers were left scratching their heads when she attempted to win a demotion in Detroit.
“You may not be a union member, but you might as well thank a union member for the five-day work week,” Harris told them.
“I’m from California. We all talk like this,” one X user sarcastically wrote alongside a phonetic spelling of how Harris spoke in her comments, “I’m going to make sure I thank the union members today.”
The vice president has dual Jamaican and Indian ancestry and her vocal dexterity was embraced by Donald Trump after her GOP rival accused her of using her black heritage to her advantage when it suited her.
“I didn’t know she was black until a few years ago, when she happened to become black and now she wants to be known as black,” he said at the annual convention. “So, I don’t know, is she Native American or black?”
The vice president’s latest accent drew similar ridicule from right-wing commentators after she tried it out on her mostly black audience on Saturday.
“Kamala Harris speaks for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, so it makes sense that she suddenly developed a mysterious accent,” conservative pundit Benny Johnson tweeted.
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre called suggestions that Kamala Harris uses different accents “insanity”
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“New? Or is it her old fake black accent?” demanded Paul A. Szypula. “Either way, it’s incredibly insulting to black people. Shame on Kamala.”
“Kamala Harris unveiled a new accent at the Black Caucus Dinner,” Steve Guest added.
“Despite growing up in Berkley, California and Montreal, Canada, Kamala uses what she thinks is a Detroit accent, a Southern accent, a French accent, and more…” he added.
The White House declined to comment when confronted about Harris’ erratic comments earlier this month.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
“She spoke in one voice about unions in Detroit,” Fox News’ Peter Doocy noted.
“She used the same phrase in Pittsburgh, and it sounded like she had at least a Southern accent.”
“Do you think Americans seriously think this is an important question?” Jean-Pierre asked.
“They care about — you know what they care about? They care about the economy. They care about lowering costs. They care about health care. That’s what Americans care about.
‘I’m not even going to answer a question about — it sounds so ridiculous.
“It’s madness,” she added.