In an interview with The Breakfast Club that aired Monday, Kamala Harris addressed a batch of derogatory memes that have been circulating social media which question the legitimacy of her Blackness. The memes criticize her mixed-race and immigrant heritage; her mother being born in India and her father in Jamaica. They also brought up the fact that she did not complete her high school years in the U.S., but instead in Canada.
She drew similarities between criticism of President Barack Obama’s Blacknessduring his 2008 Presidential Election.
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“So I was born in Oakland, and raised in the United States except for the years that I was in high school in Montreal, Canada,” Harris laughed. “And look, this is the same thing they did to Barack (Obama). This is not new to us and so I think that we know what they are trying to do.”
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