Trump mispronouncing Kamala: straight-up racism

Trump claims he's a “stable genius,” so why doesn’t he pronounce correctly the first name of the country’s Vice-President (and Presidential race opponent) Kamala Harris?

The choice is clear--
Kamala or the racist?

To be sure, Trump has butchered a lot of words (calling, for instance, California’s National Park “Yo, Semite”), but saying Harris’s name wrong isn’t just another example of his being uneducated or the bumblings of a doddering old man.

Experts point out that such purposeful mispronunciation is often a power move meant to bully another, assert dominance, put someone down.

However, when it involves the name of a person of color, it’s much more than that.

It’s straight-up racism.

Harris’s first name (pronounced--as Trump well knows--“Comma-la”) is Sanskrit, meaning “lotus flower.” About a million people worldwide share “Kamala,” most of them in India—the country of origin for Harris’s mother.

And when Trump purposely pronounces it otherwise, it hearkens back to days of US slavery, when names were changed or “Americanized” to strip enslaved people of their culture, their heritage, and their dignity. It also serves to disparage, in general, the culture from which it comes. And Trump’s done it before—mocking Nikki Haley’s given first name, “Nimarata,” and assigning her his demeaning version, “Nimbra.”

So, when you hear the despicable Donald Trump mispronounce the name of Vice-President Kamala Harris, know that it’s not just another “clever” nickname like his tiresome “Sleepy Joe,” or his now-self-describing “Crooked Hillary.”

Nope.

It’s racism.

And that’s who the despicable GOP thinks should be President.

Vote KAMALA Harris.