On Thursday evening’s “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip,” Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace confronted CNN panelists over their reaction to her pronunciation of Vice President Kamala Harris’s name. The discussion, which began with a focus on a black woman running a Trump merchandise store, took a turn when Vanderbilt University Professor Michael Eric Dyson shifted the conversation to criticize Mace for the way she said Harris’ first name, which is no different than many others.
“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. “That is BS. That is complete BS,” Mace responded as Dyson continued to say Mace doesn’t have to “intend racism to accomplish it.”
“No, no, no. You are intending that I am racist, and that is offensive and it’s wrong. And it’s offensive, and it’s disgusting,” Mace continued as other CNN panelists joined the crosstalk.
“You know what’s disgusting to women? It’s her disrespect of women,” Mace said. “She doesn’t know what a woman is, and if at 25 years ago, I became—” Dyson fired back: “White women don’t have the ability to tell black women who paid the price of blood to make this country what it is to tell them they’re not real women.”
“Twenty-five years ago, I became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina. I fought my way through it tooth and nail, blood, sweat and tears,” Mace said. “And Kamala Harris—”
“Kamala! Kamala! It’s Kamala!” CNN panelists shouted, pronouncing the vice president’s name as “KA-mah-la” instead of Mace’s “ka-MAH-la.”
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A year ago, Mace dropped some huge bombshells regarding allegations of corruption involving President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and other members of the first family during an interview Thursday with Sean Hannity. At one point during the interview, she told the legacy Fox News host that the tale of the Bidens is “one of the most corrupt stories in U.S. history when we get to the bottom of it and is estimated to be tens of millions.
Here’s a partial transcript:
HANNITY: family taking money from all these countries, do you think that they were offering services that warranted the payments of millions and millions of dollars? Or do you believe Hunter, who we are told was a crack addict at the time, that Hunter was bringing in money and offering access? In other words, we’ll hear from Devon Archer on Monday and we’re going to find out if Joe Biden used to call into all these meetings. We know that Joe lied when he said he never talked to his son about foreign business dealings. Where do you think this is heading?
MACE: I’ve been to the Treasury. I’ve read dozens of suspicious activity reports. I can tell you the amount of money that we are talking about is staggering. I believe the number will be higher than $50 million at the end of the day. I believe this will be one of the most corrupt political families in U.S. history, one of the most corrupt stories in U.S. history when we get to the bottom of it.
What we have seen is evidence of bribery, corruption, possible racketeering, money laundering. What we have to do next whether there is an impeachment inquiry or more investigation or a special counsel, in the meantime the House Oversight Committee, Judiciary Committee, Ways and Means, we have to get as many whistleblowers as possible. As many witnesses, as many documents as Devon Archer will provide.
HANNITY: Congressman, do you believe that the money spent by these countries, many of which are our top geopolitical foes, do you believe this money was spent to buy influence of the Biden family? And do you believe Joe Biden as vice president took actions in exchange for money that went to his family?
MACE: 100%. That is corroborated and text messages, emails, eyewitness testimony, whistleblowers from the IRS, et cetera. The amount of evidence is starting to become overwhelming.
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