Democratic California Sen. Barbara Boxer got Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s ethnicity wrong when she mistakenly referred to her as “Filipino.”
Boxer recently sat down with Chelsea Handler to discuss former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s loss of the presidency.
Handler pointed out that Kamala Harris, a black woman, had become California’s U.S. senator. Boxer chimed in to list other women, along with their ethnicities, who won congressional seats in the latest election.
“She [Harris] will be the second African American; she’s part Indo-American. And then Tammy Duckworth from Illinois is Filipino,” Boxer declared Thursday.
Duckworth is Thai, not Filipino. She was born in Bangkok, Thailand to a Thai mother of Chinese descent and a father with British descent.
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This is not Boxer’s first gaffe. During the Democratic National Convention, Boxer erroneously claimed women would no longer die from “back alley” abortions if Clinton became president. (RELATED:Barbara Boxer Doesn’t Get What A ‘Back Alley Abortion’ Is)
“Well, I have a message for Donald Trump and Mike Pence: we are not going back to the dark days when women died in back alleys!” Boxer declared during the DNC.
She used the term misleadingly; she insinuated in her speech that before abortion became legal, women died from having abortions in back alleys.
The term “back alley abortion” actually refers to how women had to enter abortion clinics before Roe v.Wade. Women would enter a doctor’s office through a back alley entrance, to draw attention to the illegal activity.
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