Elected Vice President Kamala Harris earlier told the anecdote about her younger self calling for “Fweedom!” – who incited accusations of plagiarism – in her books.
“My mother often laughed when she told the story of a time I spent as a toddler: she leaned down on me and asked, ‘Kamala, what’s wrong? What do you want?’ And I moaned back, ‘Fweedom,’ ‘Harris wrote in her 2010 book,’ Smart on Crime. ‘
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Harris also outlined her younger self in which she “Fweedom!” in her 2019 book “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.”
Harris apparently appropriated an anecdote first told by civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. when she was interviewed by Elle Magazine for a function published in October, culminating in the 2020 presidential election race .
Elected Vice President Kamala Harris, accompanied by her husband Doug Emhoff, spoke to the media after dropping off Toys for Tots items at a Columbia Fire House district on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin)
Harris has repeatedly boasted of her parents’ involvement in the 1960s civil rights movement. In the Elle interview, she remembers accompanying them to prams in a pram as a toddler.
“Senator Kamala Harris started her life’s work young,” author Ashley C. Ford led the play. “She laughs out of her gut, like you would with family, remembering that she rode through a civil rights march in Oakland, California, in a wagon without straps with her parents and her uncle. “she fell off the wagon … and the adults, caught up in the rapture of protest, just kept marching. By the time they noticed that little Kamala was gone and doubled, she was understandably upset.”
“My mom tells the story of how I quarrel,” Harris told the magazine. “And she’s like, ‘Baby, what do you want? What do you need?’ And I just looked at her and said, ‘Fweedom.’ “
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After the interview resurfaced Monday, Twitter users @EngelsFreddie and Andray Domise, contributing editors of Canadian publication Maclean’s, noted that Harris’ story was similar to one King published in a 1965 interview with Playboy.
“I will never forget a moment in Birmingham when a white policeman complained to a little naughty girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking a demonstration with her mother,” King said at the time. “‘What do you want?’ the policeman asked her wryly, and the little girl looked him straight in the eye and replied, “Fairy-stupid.” “She could not even express it, but she knew. It was beautiful! Many times when I was in very difficult situations, the memory of that little one came to my mind and rumbled.”
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Fox A.’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.