DAVID MARCUS: Mamdani's faux African accent as telling as it is bizarre
In a resurfaced 2016 interview, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks for the entire time in an African/South Asian accent that sounds like a mix between Trevor Noah and Apu from "The Simpsons." It is absolutely bizarre, but it is also telling.At the time, he was promoting a Disney movie that he had worked on as a dance adviser, one of the few actual jobs hizzoner has ever held. His signature smile is on display, but when he opens his lips he sounds like someone we have never heard.With his sing-songy affected voice he decries how in Africa everybody dances, but in New York the men "just grind," but don’t dance.
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In a resurfaced 2016 interview, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks for the entire time in an African/South Asian accent that sounds like a mix between Trevor Noah and Apu from "The Simpsons." It is absolutely bizarre, but it is also telling.At the time, he was promoting a Disney movie that he had worked on as a dance adviser, one of the few actual jobs hizzoner has ever held. His signature smile is on display, but when he opens his lips he sounds like someone we have never heard.With his sing-songy affected voice he decries how in Africa everybody dances, but in New York the men "just grind," but don’t dance. It is a performance entirely in character, he even imitates some Bollywood-style dance moves.FLASHBACK: MAMDANI'S HISTORY OF DODGING QUESTIONS ABOUT WHERE HE STANDS ON KEY ISSUESThis is not Hillary Clinton’s voice getting a bit twangly when she speaks in the South. This is a full-on acting job, and further proof that the theater kids have taken over the American Left.There is nothing inherently wrong with theater kids.
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- In a resurfaced 2016 interview, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks for the entire time in an African/South Asian accent that sounds like a mix between Trevor Noah and Apu from "The Simpsons." It is absolutely bizarre, but it is also telling.At the time, he was promoting a Disney movie that he had worked on as a dance adviser, one of the few actual jobs hizzoner has ever held. His signature smile is on display, but when he opens his lips he sounds like someone we have never heard.With his sing-songy affected voice he decries how in Africa everybody dances, but in New York the men "just grind," but don’t dance.
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