'Backhanded racism': Biden supporters weigh in after GOP senator mocks Kamala Harris's name
WASHINGTON — After Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., mocked Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s name, supporters of the Democratic ticket responded with a viral Twitter campaign that decried Perdue’s comments as “backhanded racism.”
The social media push included a tweet from Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for Biden, a coalition of grassroots groups backed by the campaign, that blasted Perdue and encouraged supporters to share the stories of their own names with the #MyNameIs hashtag.
“We can all relate to this kind of backhanded racism — which is still racism and wrong,” the Biden coalition wrote. “KAMALA means Lotus Flower in Sanskrit. Our names have meanings. We matter.”
Harris, the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, would achieve a string of historic firsts if elected vice president: the first Indian-American, first woman and first Black person to serve in that role.
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