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Ocasio-Cortez Comes Up With New Excuse For Accent Labeled As Racist, Pandering By Critics

Ryan Saavedra

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) came up with a new excuse for the accent she used while addressing a black audience on Friday, suggesting that she had to “code switch” it because there would be “costs” associated with not doing it.

Ocasio-Cortez, who was condemned by many African-Americans for using the accent, initially claimed that those who were calling her out for the accent were trying to “distort” and “deflect” and that it was all a conspiracy theory.

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