"Mace has clearly been brushing up on her microaggressions and was ready to display them to the world last week during a CNN panel when she repeatedly mispronounced Harris' first name, something that critics have said is disrespectful along several fronts, including racially."
"The backlash was swift - but not quicker than Mace pinning a video of the exchange to the top of her social media channels, suggesting she was proud of the moment."
"To be sure, referring to a Black man as a 'boy' in any situation will pretty much result in accusations of racism toward the person who said it. And that's for a very good reason: The term has its roots in slavery when Black men were reduced and referred to as a 'boy,' a situation that is intrinsically and historically racist."
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