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Kamala Harris, perhaps in response to Trump’s suggestion that she’s not actually black, has been testing out a new accent.
KAMALA HARRIS (with the accent):
“Hard work is good work…! We have fun doin’ hard work!” pic.twitter.com/mo5L18QgY0
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“We have fun doin’ hard work,” she told a crowd this week in a new southern accent. Last week she broke into a similar accent for a crowd in Atlanta, telling the audience, “You all helped us in 2020 and we gon’ do it again in 2024,” using a soft “r” in the final word. And in a June ad filmed for the Black Entertainment Television Awards, she said “Girl, I’m out here in these streets,” and, when describing conservatives, said, “They not like us.”
It’s only natural to revert to one’s childhood accent when in familiar company. But Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, grew up in a predominantly white community in Southern California. If Hillary Clinton could do it, Harris can too.
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