‘That is BS. That is complete BS,’ Mace responded
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Republican South Carolina Rep Nancy Mace unleashed on CNN panelists offended by how she pronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’s name Thursday evening on “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip.”
CNN’s Abby Phillip’s panel discussion about a black woman who runs a Trump merchandise store quickly went off the rails when Vanderbilt University Professor Michael Eric Dyson abruptly pivoted into an attack on Mace about the pronunciation of Harris’s first name.
“That sounds like self-hatred and justification of white supremacy,” Dyson remarked about the Trump store owner before redirecting focus on Mace. “Now let me just say this, because this congresswoman is a wonderful human being, but when you disrespect Kamala Harris by saying you will call her anything you want, I know you don’t intend it to be that way. That’s the history and legacy of white disregard for the humanity of black people,” Dyson said.
“Oh, so now you’re calling me racist?” Mace shot back.
“I didn’t say—” Dyson began.
