CNN panel devolves into shouting match after Nancy Mace repeatedly mispronounces Harris’s name

A CNN panel devolved into a shouting match on Thursday after a GOP representative refused to pronounce Kamala Harris’s name correctly.

The panel featured Republican Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina. She was joined by several other commentators, including Democratic strategist Keith Boykin and Vanderbilt University professor Michael Dyson

The conversation began with Mace pronouncing Harris’s first name correctly, before quickly correcting herself to the wrong pronunciation.

“You had it right, you almost got it,” Boykin responded.

That’s when Mace refused to correct herself: “I will say Kamala’s name any way that I want to.”

The correct pronunciation of Harris’s first name — “comma-lah,” not “cam-el-uh” or ”kuh-mal-uh” — is no secret. She even released an instructional video in 2016 during her senate campaign.

The panel devolved into several members talking over each other before Boykin was able to speak through the chaos: “If I purposely mispronounced your name, that would probably not be appropriate.”

The conversation was dropped but brought up again a few minutes later.

“This congresswoman is a wonderful human being,” Dyson added. “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 then accused Dyson of calling her “a racist.”

“I just said you weren’t a racist,” Dyson replied. “No, you don’t have to intend racism to accomplish it. Your disrespect of Kamala Harris is part and parcel of a tradition.”

The panel then turned into a shouting match. When Mace once again mispronounced the vice president’s name, several panelists shouted the correct