“As a person of color, as a Black woman who is in this position … standing before you, … what you just read out to me is repulsive. … No one has any right to tell someone who they are, how they identify. … Only she can speak to her experience. … It’s insulting for anybody, … and she is the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, and we have to put some respect on her name, period.” - White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, when told by a reporter that former President Donald Trump had just accused Harris of “turn[ing] Black”.
Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2024, page 6.
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