Comedian Ryan Long highlighted Kamala Harris’ habit of adopting a black accent while addressing black rally attendees with a clever skit in which he also pretends to be black around black people.
“So, a lot of people on the internet have been pointing out that Kamala Harris talks a little bit more black when she’s talking to black people, and as someone who also talks blacker around black people… I take offense to that,” Long claimed in his latest parody.
I also Talk Blacker Around Black People like Kamala Harris pic.twitter.com/0tDNuZB5YG
— Ryan Long (@ryanlongcomedy) August 14, 2024
Kamala raised eyebrows after appearing to don a black accent last month while addressing supporters in Atlanta.
Kamala Harris went to speak in Atlanta and now has a Southern accent. LSU coach Brian Kelly is jealous. But in all seriousness, why do people do this? It’s just so transparently fake. pic.twitter.com/xIXt29SexL
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 31, 2024
She proceeded to do the same during a subsequent visit to Detroit, Michigan.
??HAPPENING NOW: Kamala Harris is now using a Black southern voice now that she is in Detroit Michigan
“The courts are gonna handle dat. We gone beat him in Novemba. We gone beat him in Novemba”
She has no respect for Black people whatsoever. pic.twitter.com/987Nz4Yu7i
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) August 8, 2024
Kamala’s cringe code-switching drew comparisons to Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 presidential campaign, when she put on a fake southern accent to pander to the people of Selma, Alabama.
— Clown World ™ ? (@ClownWorld_) July 31, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has also called out Harris for attempting to play into her supposed black identity, when she has mostly portrayed herself as Indian throughout her political career.
