Rhode Island Senator Tiara Mack Responds To Backlash After Twerking Video Goes Viral

Despite the outrage, Mack shares that she plans on remaining "joyful, free and unbothered."

State Senator Tiara Mack is under fire for one of her latest posts on TikTok. In the short video, Mackโ€”who is a Democrat representing District 6 in Rhode Islandโ€”can be seen in a bikini twerking upside down.

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Her video, which has remained on her account, is captioned โ€œa promised senator thirst trap at Block Island.โ€ She ends it by saying โ€œVote Senator Mack!โ€

The clip immediately sparked outrage, with onlookers playing into respectability politics. โ€œI donโ€™t ever wanna hear you complain about how โ€˜women arenโ€™t respected in this countryโ€™ after posting this,โ€ one commenter remarked.

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Mack replied: โ€œHoney baby. This ainโ€™t it. Because I have an Ivy League degree and Iโ€™m a sitting state senator. Itโ€™s not about what Iโ€™m wearing. Itโ€™s not about what Iโ€™m doing. They wonโ€™t respect me regardless.โ€

Conservatives could not wait to pounce on Mack shortly after the video was posted. โ€œTiara Mack just disgraced herself and disgraced every Black woman running for public office,โ€ tweeted Republican congressional Florida candidate Lauren Spicer.

Renowned white supremacist Tucker Carlson played the clip on his show, using it to mock not only Black peopleโ€”but the Democratic party as a whole. โ€œYou have to wonder why itโ€™s left to this show of all places to announce the rising star, the next rising star in the Democratic Party,โ€ Carlson said before playing the video of Mack.

The senator took to Twitter to express how the media unfairly chooses what to cover when it comes to her career:

โ€œso can the media also cover when I won a national championship in May and named MVP of the match? can the media also cover the 10+ bills I sponsored that the @RISenate never scheduled for a hearing? can the media cover any policy wins had by the youngest Black state senator in Rhode Island? As a Black, queer woman you all should know the answer. Itโ€™s no. Letโ€™s them carry on their narrative. Me? Iโ€™m going to be joyful, free, and unbothered.โ€

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