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A story divulged by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) last year appears to have been lifted directly from civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., according to web sleuths.
In an interview with Elle last October, Harris described how her political career began early with a fanciful childhood tale about uttering the word “fweedom” to her mother while attending a civil rights march in Oakland.
Here’s the passage from the Elle interview:
Senator Kamala Harris started her life’s work young. She laughs from her gut, the way you would with family, as she remembers being wheeled through an Oakland, California, civil rights march in a stroller with no out how Istraps with her parents and her uncle. At some point, she fell from the stroller (few safety regulations existed for children’s equipment back then), and the adults, caught up in the rapture of protest, just kept on marching. By the time they noticed little Kamala was gone and doubled back, she was understandably upset. “My mother tells the story ab’m fussing,” Harris says, “and she’s like, ‘Baby, what do you want? What do you need?’ And I just looked at her and I said, ‘Fweedom.’”
This time when the dubious feel-good narrative resurfaced, internet detectives revealed her origin story closely resembled an anecdote told by Martin Luther King, Jr. in an interview with Playboy in 1965.
The accusations of plagiarism are stunning given Harris’ running mate Joe Biden’s past history of plagiarism on the campaign trail.
During his presidential campaign in 1987, Biden was exposed as having plagiarized his work in college, as well as parts of his stump speeches.
The parallel between Harris and Biden’s attitudes toward plagiarism – not to mention the hilarity of Kamala’s story – was not lost on social media users.
When I was 6 years old, I was abducted by aliens and taken to another planet in a faraway galaxy.
I was dragged to their leader and asked what I loved about planet Earth.
Teary-eyed, I glared up at the alien leader and said … “Fweedom.”
— Catturd
(@catturd2) January 5, 2021
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