It's Kamala!

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(08-12-2020, 12:49 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Tucker Carlson had a meltdown last night. A guest corrected his pronunciation of Kamala's name Tucker said "so what?". The guest said that "out of respect of someone on a national ticket, we should be pronouncing their name correctly". Tucker then went on a rant about how you're not allowed to criticize Kamala Harris and then intentionally used two mispronunciations of her name.

Tucker's shtick is practically a troll, or at the minimum abundant in hypocrisy.

Having said that, it's a bit ironic considering Harris doesn't know how to pronounce her own name. Or perhaps simplified it for the American tongue, but I believe that would be giving her unnecessary benefit of doubt. Based on the OP's link and the correction by the guest on Carlson's show, I'm going to infer that Harris herself pronounces it as "Comma la", which is incorrect. It's actually "Kuh muh lAh". Slightly larger picture, never considered her to be seriously conscious of her Indian roots in depth, other than cursory mentions of it, and a sort of "look, I'm not only black, but I also have this totally different ethnicity going for me". Admittedly, I'm neither a big fan of hers nor well versed in her background, but none of her actions scream "Indian" by culture, save for when political points are to be gained. Mentions of growing up eating Indian foods at home on a cooking show with another lady of Indian descent, while I guess is something, isn't that convincing. None of which speaks ill of her, but at the same time, paints her as a panderer claiming a cultural affiliation she doesn't follow, or at best it rings hollow of someone biologically tied to another culture and nothing more, all the while making more of said ties than what's true in conduct.  For all intents and purposes, I would classify her as a Black woman socialized deeply into the American Black ethos, and that's perfectly fine by me. I'm just seriously skeptical of any claims of Indian culture other than purely DNA based. But then again, politicians are not exactly new to pandering/ redefining their image according to the situation, so, this is just par for the course. She was a perfectly safe pick as a Black woman with name recognition, albeit with some rough edges from her prosecutorial background.

Honestly, I was hoping for anybody but Harris as a VP pick, but in the larger picture, I don't believe this affects Biden's candidacy too adversely if at all. A safe pick, but not a very inspired one. Having said that, I sure hope Biden sees his full term through.