Trump denigrates Harris as 'lazy,' invoking a racist trope against Black people

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Trump denigrates Harris as 'lazy,' invoking a racist trope against Black people
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump criticized Democratic nominee Kamala Harris with a word long used to demean Black people. Speaking Tuesday in Florida, Trump noted that Harris did not have public events scheduled and called her “lazy as hell.” Harris was spending Tuesday in meetings in Washington, D.C.

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Trump has often characterized Harris as weak and challenged her mental competence, as he did again Tuesday, referring to her as “slow” and as someone with a “low IQ.” Using the term “lazy” to describe Harris, who is Black and of South Asian descent, evokes tropes that paint Black Americans as lazy, unsophisticated, submissive or inept.

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