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.’
‘In the bay, you either live in the hills or the flatlands,’ she said. ‘We lived in the flats, a beautiful working-class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses, and construction workers all who tended their lawns with pride.’
Harris, however, did not officially move to the flats of Oakland until she was an adult in her 20s, according to the New York Times.
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.
