Channeling her fellow New York Democrat Hillary Clinton, today Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez today affected a black southern accent when speaking before Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
The 29-year-old Democratic Socialist congressman opened her remarks with a dig at President Trump, who had recently mocked her Green New Deal as the product of a “young bartender.”
In taking on Trump, AOC, as she calls herself, assumed an unusual accent.
“You know, reverend, you bring up a funny anecdote and I’m proud to be a bartender, ain’t nothing wrong with that,” she said, sounding a bit like she might want to try preaching herself. “There’s nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy. There is nothing wrong with preparing the food that your neighbors will eat, there is nothing wrong with driving the buses that take your family to work, there is nothing wrong with being a working person in the United States of America, and there is everything dignified about it.”
While speaking, AOC employed a drawl to her almost every word.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez continued: “I, in fact, am encouraged when people remind the country of my past, not because of anything about my story, but because it communicates that if I could work in a restaurant and become a member of the United States Congress, so can you. So can you. And so, what we are fighting for are the policies that are concentrated in working people and communities of color and the historically disenfranchised to make that more possible in America, to make us be a nation that keeps its promise and lives up to the words in our founding charter.”