Kamala’s raisin d’etre: Harris claims she didn’t eat a grape until was in her 20s because she wanted to show solidarity with boycotting

Vice President Kamala Harris gave a Labor Day interview to The National about her childhood growing up amongst pro-worker activists

She appears to have mixed up the timeline of California’s grapes boycotts

The last and longest of three boycotts took place between 1984 and 2000

Harris told The National: ‘I didn’t eat a grape until I was in my 20s…It was absolutely ingrained so deeply in me: Never cross a picket line’


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.’

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Vice President Kamala Harris said during an interview with The Nation that she did not eat a grape until her 20s due to boycotts in her state

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.

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.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11185399/Kamala-Harris-claims-didnt-eat-grape-20s-union-boycott.html

h/t Coastie Patriot

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