Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded Friday to critics who accused her of using a fake black accent during her speech at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention.
“Folks talking about my voice can step right off,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Women’s March & Kavanaugh speech, same. Any kid who grew up in a distinct linguistic culture & had to learn to navigate class enviros at school/work knows what’s up. My Spanish is the same way.”
“As much as the right wants to distort & deflect, I am from the Bronx,” she continued in another tweet. “I act & talk like it, *especially* when I’m fired up and especially when I’m home. It is so hurtful to see how every aspect of my life is weaponized against me, yet somehow asserted as false at the same time.”
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Get used to it honey, it's just getting started.
ReplyDeleteYou were about as foolish to talk down to those people as Hillary was, and she's still regretting it almost three years later. They don't consider you "one of them".
ReplyDeleteand dumb as a bronx brick
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ReplyDeleteTranslation: "I'm going to babble anyhow. Just try to find me making any sense."
Sooner than she thinks she'll be back tending bar where she'll be going, "Can I see some ID?" in whatever dialect or accent she pleases.