Regent apologizes after being accused of posting racist tweet about Harris

A member of the Nevada Board of Regents has come under fire for a tweet of a video clip using racial tropes to criticize Vice President Kamala Harris.

In a Monday tweet on X, Stephanie Goodman, a representative for District 13, retweeted a video clip from an account called @PapiTrumpo and added three laughing emojis. It is a doctored video clip from the film “Tropic Thunder,” in which an actor in blackface speaks to a Black character.

At the bottom of the initial video is text labeling the actor in blackface as “Kamala Harris,” and the Black actor as “Actual Black people.”
Goodman told the Review-Journal that it was in reference to national online discussion about Harris changing her voice depending on her audience.

Goodman, the former daughter-in-law of Las Vegas Mayors Carolyn and Oscar Goodman, was elected to the Board of Regents in 2022. She served as Oscar Goodman’s chief of staff for several years after he was elected mayor in 1999 before resigning when she got engaged to one of his sons, Eric Goodman.



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