Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s speech to a predominantly black audience Friday was glorious.

Apparently trying to come up with some kind of urban swagger, she tossed a bizarre droning “blaccent” at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference.

Ocasio-Cortez speaks in an accent that she never uses while telling a room of predominately black people that there is nothing wrong with them folding clothes, cooking, and driving other people around on a bus for a living. pic.twitter.com/FIbIAPokt0

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 5, 2019

And it took us back, of course, to a pandering Hillary Clinton — which was also fantastic:

Why is the above clip not on speed dial for everyone online? Its awesomeness shoulda been pressed by the media the same as some of their favorite Trump snippets. But alas, No.

AOC was, of course, criticized for the idiotic attempt to, I suppose, sound black. She responded with her usual method:

As much as the right wants to distort & deflect, I am from the Bronx. I act & talk like it, *especially* when I’m fired up and especially when I’m home.

It is so hurtful to see how every aspect of my life is weaponized against me, yet somehow asserted as false at the same time.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 5, 2019

Word to the wise: in politics, “Step off” — as a defense — doesn’t work.

She claimed to have used the same style of slingin’ syllables at the Women’s March and a speech about Brett Kavanaugh. But that was baloney:

At the Women’s March, she employed her Little Girl voice — the one that sounds like she’s voicing a character for Disney Junior’s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse:

So over the weekend, she came up with a new, more sophisticated-sounding explanation for her droning like a gigantic weirdo in front of black folks and the whole world: She — a master of communication — was “code-switching.”

Next time you‘re told straight hair is “unprofessional” & that speaking like your parents do is “uneducated,” then you can complain about code-switching.

Code switching is a tool communities learn when they’re told their voice, appearance, & mannerisms are “unprofessional.” https://t.co/tKPTneEncO

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 7, 2019

I honestly don’t know what to say about an idea so dumb. But here’s more of her trying to somehow be the victor:

The good news is that we can improve this easily w/ honest reflection.

For ex, are certain hairstyles discouraged in your workplace?Why?

Can you think of someone who didn’t advance bc of how they spoke? Why?

Examine what’s deemed “unprofessional” around you & adapt it to 2019.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 7, 2019

Of course, not everyone was impressed. Stefan Grant, for one:

Oddly, “code-switching” is intended, it appears, to mean exactly the same as pandering.

Word to the wise: Changing the word doesn’t make it better, goof.

https://twitter.com/derek_mafs/status/1114696455426646016

At the end of the day, AOC really lamed it up.

You’re still not black

— Ashley StClair 🇺🇸 (@stclairashley) April 7, 2019

Code switching = still pandering.

Assuming a different speech because of people who don’t speak the same as you is just suggesting they’re not intelligent enough to understand you.

— Hotep Virgin Mary (@_realjgoodwin) April 7, 2019

But I’ll giver her props: This is actually the first time she’s done something normal. Her usual role is one of a 2nd grader pulled out of school to sit in Congress, not knowing anything about anything, yet having been told she knows about everything about everything and so she should talk like it’s goin’ outta style (here, here, here, and here).

What she did Saturday had the sheen of a mature, experienced, idiot politician.

#Growth.

But not to Seth Weathers:

You’re unprofessional

— SETH WEATHERS (@sethweathers) April 7, 2019

But what does he know? He just doesn’t speak code.

-Alex

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