Last Updated on September 18, 2024
Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who has developed a reputation for employing ethnic accents that aren’t her own, debuted a new speech pattern on Wednesday at a meeting of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus when she mimicked the voices of non-native English speakers whose first language is Spanish.
Video footage of Kamala Harris speaking like a vocal caricature of a foreign-born Hispanic woman has quickly gone viral online after she used her new Latina accent to shout “I love you back!” at a supporter in the audience.
Watch the Video Clip Below:
Kamala’s sudden transition to a Latina dialect is far from the first time that she’s invited ridicule over the way she talks.
Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign cycle, Harris has been mocked for picking and choosing when she uses a Black accent, or a White one, or something else entirely.
For instance, recently, she used the exact same talking points on the exact same day in Michigan and Pennsylvania, but in Michigan, she was speaking to Black voters in Detroit, so she used a stereotypical Black accent. In Pennsylvania, she was speaking to Whites in Pittsburgh, so she talked in her usual, neutral voice.
In 2019, during her first run for the presidency, Harris was slammed by her own father for using a fake Black accent and lying about her family background during a radio interview on The Breakfast Club in which she claimed that her family was a bunch of pot-smoking Jamaicans who like listening to rap music – something her father vehemently denies.
As previously reported by National File:
Kamala Harris claimed in a 2019 interview on The Breakfast Club radio program, the very same program on which Hillary Clinton made her infamous hot sauce remarks, that despite her career as an anti-marijuana prosecutor, she supports its legalization and used to smoke it while listening to rap music because “half my family is from Jamaica, are you kidding me?”
The interview came shortly after Harris, who is the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, announced her run for the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nomination on Martin Luther King Jr. day, casting herself as an African-American as she has throughout her political career, despite her lack of ancestral links to the formerly enslaved population of the United States.
“My dear departed grandmothers…as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their graves right now to see their family’s name, reputation, and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not, with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics,” Donald Harris said a statement he made to the Jamaica Global Online.
“Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.”
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Throwing yet another wrench into the Kamala Harris accent mystery is the fact that her mother was an Indian immigrant to the United States who later moved Kamala to Canada, far away from the dialectic influence of Black Americans and Hispanics.
Many have wondered where and how Kamala Harris picked up such a wide variety of accents and a look into her background does nothing but raise even more questions about her speech pattern, and what types of additional, unreleased accents she may have up her sleeve.
As I previously reported in an article published on X:
In 1976, when Harris was 12 years old, her divorced mother, Indian Immigrant Shyamala Gopalan Harris, took a job in Montreal at the McGill University School of Medicine and the Jewish General Hospital and moved her children with her to the nation where Kamala would spend her teenage years. Harris’ time in Canada has been largely omitted from the biographical narrative being pushed as she runs for president, which paints her as an African-American woman from Oakland, California, as opposed to the half-Indian, half-Jamaican, internationally-raised daughter of two foreign-born university professors.
