Mace battles CNN panel over accusations of 'racist' language toward Harris

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) battled a CNN panel Thursday after members accused the congresswoman of using “racist” language in how she and other Republicans pronounce Vice President Kamala Harris’s name and address her mixed ethnic background.

“This congresswoman is a wonderful human being. But when you disrespect Kamala Harris by saying you will call her whatever you want, 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,” Michael Eric Dyson, an academic and author, told Mace.