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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A raisin grows in Napa.
People never learn. McGovern did the same stupid thing with Chavez and the lettuce pickers during his run for the Presidency. In a photo op, he told reporters that he wasn’t going to eat lettuce until the pickers’ union got their demands.
Stupid move.
He should have done exactly the opposite. With a boycott, the demand for lettuce falls and give an almost vertical supply curve in the short run, the price will fall dramatically. Now the farmer has even less money to pay a higher wage. Indeed, he may just plow the crop under to fertilize the soil.
However, had McGovern said “I’m going to eat 5 salads a day and I hope you’ll join me!”, the demand curve shifts up dramatically and the price increases. Now the farmer not only has more money to meet the demands, but the cost of letting the lettuce rot in the field is a lot more expensive because of the price rise.
I know this is way above Kamala’s head, but she should at least try to learn from others’ past mistakes.
Il y a une raison à cela.
but did ya have any Thunderbird?
It doesn’t sound “quaint,” it sounds like an abject lie.
Just another virtue-signaling Democrat skank! Despicable
but did ya have any Thunderbird?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
Oh Gawd, is that poison still on the market? I remember many parties in the ‘50s when NOBODY would touch that rot gut for fear of keeling over dead!
No one believes any thing this worthless piece of crap says on any subject.
oh, I think so....sold in only upper class establishments.
Uh-huh. /eyeroll.
Oh, stop, stop! You’re killing me! Who writes this stuff?
I wonder if she's aware that Caesar Chavez hated, in his words, "illegals" and "wetbacks"? Does Kammy hate them too?
Ignorant slut. Cesar Chavez (who hated illegal immigration) ended his grape boycott in 1970.
This is a lie just like her smoking weed in college (because she’s from Jamaica ya know) and listening to Snoop songs that were years from being recorded.
Idiot bimbo.
Remember the line in “Heaven Can Wait” where Warren Beatty tries to convince his board members that he stopped eating grapes to virtue signal and that “wouldn’t you spend an extra nickel to save a porpoise?” in their tuna harvesting business.
But she ate a lot of bananas.
Her crock is always full and steaming.
What a load of hooey.
IAC, eating a grape would be difficult when, most of the time, her mouth is full of other people’s genitalia...
Does drinking wine count?
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