Kamala Harris has created a contrived persona and false identity to advance her career, portraying herself as a member of a “marginalized group.” The logic goes like this: if she is perceived as part of a victim class based on her race (spoiler: she is not), few people will follow her politics.
For left-wing journalists to dig too deeply into where Harris really comes from would be career-destroying, given that she has run her campaign on identifying with “marginalized groups.” Clearly, that’s why no one will, and we can safely assume that no one will either, including Harris.
In 2020, during the “racial reckoning” that followed the death of George Floyd, Harris ran for president, arguing with everyone that we should defund the police and give felons the right to vote. And what about just a decade earlier? She was padding her record by jailing people for marijuana offenses in California, back when, of course, being tough on crime was still in vogue within the Democratic Party.
During her brief stint in the White House, she also invented personal anecdotes about participating in the civil rights movement as a child, plagiarized a quote from Martin Luther King Jr., and claimed to have demanded “fweedom” when she was barely old enough to speak. She also scathingly criticized then-rival Joe Biden’s previous stance on school busing, casually implying that he was a racist, before joining his running mate for vice president.
With less than 100 days until the election, at a moment when racial politics are the beginning and end of every national conversation, Kamala Harris has seized her opportunity, and as she always does, she has distorted her record and beliefs for her own advancement.
But Kamala Harris was not “out here in the streets.” Claim.
I’m exactly the same.streetWhere she grew up. I lived down the street from where she went to school. schooland she I lived Although she lived just around the corner from the school I attended, she actually spent her seldom-spoken childhood and adolescence in an upper-class neighborhood in Montreal, Canada.
When Harris was 12 years old, her mother Hired She worked with McGill University doing breast cancer research at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, where I was born, and her mother is called a “pioneer” by local doctors.
Harris grew up in a neighborhood called Westmount, a predominantly British community in French Quebec.
While she undoubtedly experienced racism while living there, it was not the kind of racism she claims to have experienced in recent years.
There is no racial hostility in Montreal. Although political discourse on race has been imported from the United States in recent years, for anyone who stopped living in Montreal before 2020, it is likely not part of the cultural awareness or experience.
Canada has a history of tension with Indigenous peoples, but since this story isn’t about Elizabeth Warren, I won’t go into that.
Montreal is actually a “melting pot” in terms of racial and ethnic diversity, and thanks to a series of language and cultural laws that have been in place since the 1970s and continue to this day, it has always had the unique ability to embrace immigrants of all backgrounds, races and religions while still preserving its French culture.
In talking about Kamala Harris’ roots and personal experiences, the only discrimination she has experienced would be economic discrimination, as Montreal is the most economically segregated city in Canada. according to According to a study from the University of Toronto.
And in that city, Kamala Harris grew up in the most exclusive neighborhood. When she lived there, The nicest neighborhood In Montreal, The wealthiest One across Canada. A far cry from the “street” fighting that Harris now claims to support.
According to the editorial wrote A close friend from his days at Westmount High School told me that Harris lived with his mother and sister Maya in a Victorian house on Grosvenor Street, where he enjoyed “family dinners and a stable life,” as the friend described it.
It fits with the lifestyle of most of the people in the area: a beautiful, safe, quiet, kid-friendly community with a park, a red-brick library with a greenhouse, an indoor skating rink across from her high school, a synagogue, and a church. On a walk through the community (which crosses the mountainside and requires some physical fitness), you see kids (of all races and ethnicities) in uniforms and ties walking their dogs after school or playing on local sports teams, mothers jogging together, and nannies pushing toddlers in strollers.
This is one of the luckiest places one could live, and the suggestion that Harris is a “street” seems like a wry joke told by many who grew up there.
Similarly, watching her as someone who grew up in the same place and in the same culture, I am amazed at how she expresses herself.
Those of you who read this column and listen to my radio interviews for Breitbart News Daily know that I pronounce the year “twenty-wenty-four,” with its trademark Canadian hard T and R. Kamala Harris, who grew up literally eight blocks west of me, now pronounces the year “tweny-tweny-fow.” She would never have even heard anyone speak that way while she was growing up, much less lived among people who spoke with that accent, much less naturally acquired it.
Kamala shows off her new accent in Atlanta:
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 30, 2024
This is not “code switching.” This is lying, deception, and the kind of shameless fabrication and disregard for facts that Ms. Harris and the Democrats continue to accuse Donald Trump of. If she said “deux mille vingt-quatre,” I would be more likely to believe her “code switching.”
“As someone who grew up in the same place, in the same culture, I look at Harris and am even slightly astonished that she would suggest that she comes from a place of alienation, oppression, or conflict. I cannot emphasize enough how outlandish that assertion is. In fact, it is ridiculous, absurd, and completely fabricated.”
Kamala Harris has developed a chameleon-like persona to promote whatever policies are politically expedient at the time in order to capitalize on opportunities that will get her ahead, and it’s worked (so far): She’s running for president at a time when the media and elites are too stupid (or lazy, or both) to analyze policies and instead focus solely on physical characteristics, like race.
“Her multiple identities [sic] “This is actually her superpower moment,” says Glinda Carr, CEO of Higher Heights for America. Said CNN wrote an article titled “Her surprising origin story could help broaden her base: Diverse donors vie to help Harris make history.”
What’s an “amazing origin story”? Her mother is a doctor and raised her in Grosvenor? Do I have an “amazing origin story” too, from Redfern? Neither of my parents even have a university degree! Am I even more “amazing”? I never thought of my “origin story” like that. It seems to mean how I grew up and where I came from to get to where I am now, but maybe I should now.
Unfortunately, a media-driven obsession with something that is not important and should never be given any thought has allowed Kamala Harris to become a person of immense privilege who is now actually trying to get ahead by appropriating the culture of the oppressed.
And with a multi-billion dollar media and multi-billion dollar donors encouraging people to ignore any discussion of her outrageous policy agenda, who can blame her?
Emma Jo Morris is the political editor at Breitbart News. Email: Or follow her upon twitter.
