Rep. Nancy Mace says she's angry that she didn't receive "respect" from Black academics who requested that she not purposefully mispronounce Vice President Kamala Harris's first name.
Mace (R-SC) took to X on Friday to respond to a heated exchange on CNN spurred by her assertion that she would pronounce Harris' first name "any way that I want to."
"I was interrupted over 10 times last night by the Radical Left who don’t respect women," Mace wrote.
Mace was responding on social media to co-panelist Keith Boykin, co-founder of the National Black Justice Coalition and former White House aide to former President Bill Clinton, who noted that he and co-panelist Michael Eric Dyson tried to correct her 10 times.
"When you disrespect Kamala Harris by saying you will call her whatever you want," Dyson told Mace during the segment, "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."
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Mace shot back, "So now you're calling me a racist."
"No," Dyson replied, "You don't have to intend racism to accomplish it."
The segment was met with backlash Friday morning by viewers who found Mace's insistence on mispronouncing Harris' name "weird."
Mace also contended Harris didn't know what a real woman was and said she hadn't heard former President Donald Trump question Harris' race in a media sit-down with Black journalists late last month.
When Mace refused to agree with Abby Phillip that Trump's comment was out of bounds, a frustrated Boykin replied, "It's a cult — they won't say anything that goes against the cult."
