Vice President Kamala Harris is being called out for ‘rewriting’ her story about where she really grew up in northern California to claim more moderate beginnings.
The presidential hopeful speaks fondly about her upbringing in Oakland, California, but she actually spent the majority of her youth and early school years in Berkeley, a place with more leftist connotations.
During her presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last week in Chicago, Harris spoke about how her mother rented an apartment in ‘the East Bay.’
Although she was born in an Oakland hospital, her birth certificate lists an apartment building near to the University of California at Berkeley where her parents were pursuing their doctorates.
Harris has a record of speaking vaguely about her upbringing, likely an attempt to identify with a more humble middle class life, instead of the privileged life as a child of Berkeley academics.
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Harris also sidestepped her Berkeley identity when she first delivered her official kickoff rally in Oakland for her failed 2020 presidential campaign.
‘I am so proud to be a daughter of Oakland, California,’ she said. ‘And as most of you know, I was born just up the road at Kaiser Hospital.’
In her 2019 memoir, Harris wrote that she ‘spent the formative years of my childhood living on the boundary between Oakland and Berkeley.’
But Harris grew up in Berkeley and attended Berkeley public schools. She was also part of a busing program that shifted the location of her school to the more wealthy part of the city.
