Why did you change your name? https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1388248059805675526

Not trying to “dunk” on anyone. I’m saying this is ridiculous how these politicians give their stories of being the children of immigrants or sharecroppers, how they had to overcome discrimination & various odds... only to turn around & say no one else is dealing with it now???

LOL at folks in the replies to this pretending to have no awareness of power dynamics around anglicized names, be it Obama going by Barack instead of Barry or Ted Cruz instead of Rafael, Bobby Jindal instead of Piyush or all the European immigrants who changed their names...

...and what makes it even more rich is they pretend to have no awareness of this at the same time conservatives push for English to be the official language & engage in rampant xenophobia.

And for folks asking about my name— it’s French & English. No one looking at my name on a resume would assign a nonwhite ethnicity to it. I started using Bree as my pen name simply b/c folks have been misspelling my name ever since Britney Spears dropped Baby One More Time

Conservatives made a whole thing of emphasizing that his name is “Barack HUSSEIN Obama” but now folks have no concept of this notion that “ethnic-sounding” names can impact one’s social or political advancement here. Because after all, America isn’t racist