CNN Panel Erupts: 'You Don’t Have to Intend Racism to Accomplish It,' Says Professor in Heated Exchange
CNN Panel Erupts: 'You Don’t Have to Intend Racism to Accomplish It,' Says Professor in Heated Exchange
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00:00In a Cape Cod-style house painted in red, white, and blue in Virginia, CNN's Ellie Reeve
00:07met with a black Trump supporter who runs a MAGA merchandise store.
00:11It sells everything from Confederate flag bathing suits to white privilege credit cards.
00:19Every woman ought to have one of these.
00:21It's one of those things that when people see one, then they want one.
00:25Same thing with the Confederate hat.
00:28You know why?
00:29I don't think you have the nerve to do it.
00:34Ellie Reeve is here joining us at the table.
00:36So interesting.
00:37I mean, she seems to get great joy out of being sort of like a non-traditional face
00:43of MAGA Confederate merchandise.
00:46Yeah.
00:47I asked her if she liked being provocative, and she said yes, but then corrected herself
00:51and said it was unifying for her to have the Confederate flag, that when people felt that
00:56something of theirs was controversial, it brought them together to hear someone like
01:00her say that it was okay.
01:02Michael.
01:03That sounds like self-hatred and justification of white supremacy.
01:07And let me just say this, because this congresswoman is a wonderful human being, but when you disrespect
01:13Kamala Harris by saying you will call her whatever you want, I know you don't intend
01:16it to be that way.
01:17That's the history and legacy of white disregard for the humanity of black people.
01:21So now you're calling me racist.
01:22I just said you were racist.
01:23That is BS.
01:24That is complete BS.
01:25You don't have to intend racism to accomplish it.
01:26No, no, no.
01:27You are intending that I'm racist.
01:28Your disrespect of Kamala Harris is part and parcel of a tradition of disrespect.
01:29Wait a minute.
01:30Hold on.
01:31It's offensive.
01:32Congresswoman.
01:33And it's offensive.
01:34That is disgusting.
01:35I'm not calling you a racist.
01:36I'm telling you what the practice is, right?
01:37You are.
01:38You are.
01:39You absolutely are.
01:40Why can't I say the better way I'm saying it?
01:41Let me get in here.
01:42Disrespecting.
01:43No, what's disgusting is your disrespect of her.
01:44That is disgusting.
01:45Professor.
01:46This gentleman said, I didn't know her name.
01:47You know what's disgusting to women is her disrespect of women.
01:48She doesn't know what a woman is.
01:50And if 25 years ago.
01:51White women don't have the ability to tell black women who paid the price of blood to
01:52make this country what it is to tell them they're not real women.
01:5325 years ago.
01:5425 years ago.
01:55I became the first woman to graduate from the Citadel, the military college of South
01:56Carolina.
01:57I fought my way through it.
01:58So pronounce her name right.
01:59So pronounce her name right.
02:00And Kamala Harris.
02:01Kamala.
02:02Kamala.
02:03We don't call you Nancy.
02:04It's Kamala.
02:05Kamala.
02:06Kamala.
02:07Kamala.
02:08Kamala.
02:09Kamala.
02:10Kamala.
02:11Kamala.
02:12Kamala.
02:13Kamala.
02:14Kamala.
02:15Kamala.
02:16Kamala.
02:17Kamala.
02:18Kamala.
02:19Kamala.
02:20Kamala.
02:21Kamala.
02:22Kamala.
02:23Kamala.
02:24Kamala.
02:25Kamala.
02:26Kamala.
02:27Kamala.
02:28Kamala.
02:29Kamala.
02:30It's Kamala.
02:31You're doing it disrespectfully, Congresswoman.
02:32You're disrespectful.
02:33I am not.
02:34Just a second.
02:35If a man put on a skirt and walked on stage 25 years ago, she would have taken that achievement
02:36away from women.
02:37That's disgusting.
02:38That's disgusting.
02:39Let me get in here, because I want to play one more bit from Ellie's piece, because it
02:40does have something to do with this, believe it or not.