Her political opponents are sharing a screenshot supposedly comparing two Associated Press headlines — one from 2016 and another from 2020.
  • Riskable
    241·
    3 months ago

    Why is this an issue? I don’t get it.

    In 2016 she was the first Indian American senator (but not the first Black senator) so that context makes sense.

    In 2020 she was the first Black, first Indian American, and first woman vice President. So that headline makes perfect sense too.

    Why would anyone get upset over these headline differences? They weren’t even published by Democrats and there were probably dozens of similar headlines from other news organizations at the time.

    • Amoxtli@thelemmy.clubOP
      238·
      3 months ago

      And Elon Musk is an African American.

      • Elon Reeve Musk

      June 28, 1971 (age 53) Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa -

      • Trae@lemmy.world
        8·
        3 months ago

        No one’s saying he isn’t?

        Now if he started calling himself black that’d be an entirely different story.