Thursday, during a panel discussion on CNN’s “NewsNight,” Vanderbilt professor Michael Eric Dyson and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) had a heated back-and-forth exchange about Vice President Kamala Harris.
Dyson accused Mace of racism for allegedly mispronouncing Harris’ name, which Mace suggested the vice president did not know what a woman was.
Partial transcript as follows:
DYSON: That sounds — that sounds like self-hatred and justification of white supremacy. And let me just say this because 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.
MACE: So, now you’re calling me racist.
DYSON: I didn’t say it.
MACE: That is B.S. That is complete B.S.
DYSON: I just…
