She is, in fact, an excellent public speaker and the problem is that racists cannot square that reality with their view that a Black woman cannot be as smart and articulate as a wealthy white man, and so every time it happens they think it has to be faked.

She was a prosecuting attorney, right? Pretty good training for arguing with an opponent in public under rules of order.

Remember that when these people decry “DEI”—the reason we need DEI is because there are too many racist assholes like them who are completely incapable of judging the true worth of some of our best and brightest.

Spot on!!!

I am old enough to remember republicans calling young Obama “articulate” and “well spoken” in that extremely telling tone of patronizing, impressed surprise, but I guess at least then they weren’t accusing him of being AI

It's amazing watching people see someone whose multiple careers have all required public speaking and thinking on her feet be good at public speaking and thinking on her feet and decide she must be faking it somehow.

So true. Racism loves an eloquence trope. Whatever else he was, Obama was one of the best speakers in the history of language. Did not stop them.