Posted on 09/06/2022 11:29:07 AM PDT by algore
Vice President Kamala Harris claimed Monday to have never eaten a grape until she was in her 20s, citing her belief to 'never cross a picket line.'
Growing up with progressive activist parents, the vice president recounted her years-long support for labor movements including the grapes boycotts in her home state of California.
The last and longest took place from 1984 through 2000.
Harris would have been 19 or 20 when it started, and it ended the month after she turned 36.
'The farmworkers movement was very much a part of my childhood,' the vice president told The Nation.
'This sounds quaint, and so I’m reluctant to say it, but, you know, I didn’t eat a grape until I was in my 20s. Like, literally, had never had a grape.'
She continued, 'I remember the first time I had a grape, I went, "Wow! This is quite tasty." It was absolutely ingrained so deeply in me: Never cross a picket line
If that's true then Harris would have run afoul of her own moral code at a time when the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez were pushing for fairer conditions for workers.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Harris' office for comment.
The first grapes strike was organized by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and lasted 1965 through 1970.
Harris, born in 1964, would have spent her earliest years growing up as labor activists shunned the fruit.
Another occurred in 1973, initiated by Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
Harris' Monday comments are not the first time she's offered a timeline that has prompted questions.
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Every sound from a Lefty's mouth is a lie.
We can always count on ol’ Roundheels for some comic relief.
YAWN
Maybe her mom never got the memo that the boycotts had been cancelled.
There are a lot of liberal/progressive women like that.
Started at a young age and still vilifying all things good and wholesome.
She’s lying.
Lips that touch the fruit of the vine shall never touch mine.
No problem swallowing everything else though.
I’m sure she had nothing against schlong in her mouth though. Ask Willie Davis.
Somewhere in her bio we will learn she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary too.
Oh yeah right…did she abstain from wine also????libs are such virtue signaling liars…and cammiegurl is dumber than aoc if that’s possible…I know I know…can’t be by much…
>>Kamala’s raisin d’etre<<
Raisins you munch on, raisons you contemplate.
There is no limit to heel’s up harris level of stupidity.
but it drank box-full’s of them...
Bet she had some wine
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