Analysis: Donald Trump questioning Kamala Harris' race shows he doesn't understand code-switching

https://apnews.com/article/harris-racial-identity-trump-nabj-code-switching-99477451de49a0e682128ad04438c6dd

BY AARON MORRISON

Updated 9:15 PM EDT, August 1, 2024

Kamala Harris has range. She can grill nominees for the Supreme Court or meet with foreign dignitaries, then pivot to hosting a Diwali celebration or dancing enthusiastically alongside an HBCU-styled marching band.

It is a dexterity that Harris, the first Black woman and Asian American to serve as vice president, developed as a person of color to navigate the corridors of power or Main Street in a nation where race and identity influence how one is received or embraced.

Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, is an adroit code-switcher, a term that can include deliberately adjusting one’s speech style and expression to optimize relatability and ensure she gets a message across.

Former President Donald Trump, during a contentious interview session at a meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, showed no familiarity with the concept. He implied that Harris is inauthentic for embracing all aspects of her heritage. His failure to recognize code-switching also speaks to a prevailing belief that whiteness, often correlated with speaking in plainly enunciated English, is the default in our politics and democracy.

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Vocab word of the Anons:

code-switching

>>21336702

Anon recommends installing a bidet.

>>21336803

Don't discount the motive being plausible deniability. Like the Trump assassination attempt, incompetence is the excuse and the plan.

>>21336808

One hundred percent, "cultural appropriation for pandering" is now "cross-dressing" or whatever the fuck word they make believed I forget already.

>>21336756

Correction to my commentary: "Vocab work of the DAY Anons."

>>21336906

>>21336907

Could be a code-switcher

>>21336912

I thought he was cancelling trips to await her VP nominatin

>>21336943

>whiteness..correlated with speaking in plainly enunciated English

<blackness code-switch pretending you can't talk good right

>>21336990

The colonists were Christians. We don't actually have "separation of church and state." We have barred our government from making religious laws or requiring religious tests of us.