This inability to get names right is why I often just give my first initial in situations like baristas, or queues. And my name is anglicized, it’s real fucking easy, and people still get it wrong.
And that is nothing compared to my Black friends. We have talked about how it feels like a power play, Mekita Rivas explains exactly how and why it IS a power play for the yeehawdists to keep mispronouncing Kamala, even when corrected.
https://www.vogue.com/article/kamala-trump-pronunciation
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