We all know that Joe Biden’s personal story — at least the one he shares publicly — is basically a series of tall tales that bear virtually no similarity to the truth. He claimed to have graduated in the top half of his law school when he actually graduated near the bottom. He also claimed to have grown up in a black church, a Jewish synagogue, and a Puerto Rican neighborhood. He claimed to have fought segregation, even though he didn’t. He claimed to have had an epiphany about same-sex marriage as a teenager, even though he opposed same-sex marriage even as vice president.
Some of his fictional stories are from adulthood, too. He claims that his first wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver, even though his wife had actually caused the crash by running a stop sign. He also claimed that his son Beau was killed in combat in Iraq, that he got arrested in South Africa, and that he’s claimed to have been a professor despite never teaching a class.
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But Joe Biden isn't the only one in the White House whose life story belongs in the fiction section of the bookstore. Vice President Kamala Harris is a bad liar, too, and she has repeatedly told fiction about her childhood.
She exaggerated her personal history with busing during the 2020 Democratic primaries. “And there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day, and that little girl was me.” Her school had been integrated years before she was born.
She has also claimed that when she was still a toddler, her mother had taken her to a protest and had briefly gone missing. “My mother tells the story about how I’m fussing, and she’s like, ‘Baby, what do you want? What do you need?’ And I just looked at her and I said, ‘Fweedom.’”
It's a cute story, but it didn't happen. It's just a modified version of a story told by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965.
But another whopper she loves to tell is that her family celebrated Kwanzaa when she grew up. And she told us this lie again on Tuesday in a video posted to X/Twitter.
“Growing up, Kwanzaa was always a special time. We came together with generations of friends, family, and neighbors. There were never enough chairs, so my sister and I and the other children would often sit on the floor, and together we lit the candles of the kinara. And then the elders would talk about how Kwanzaa is a time to celebrate culture, community, and family. And they, of course, taught us about the seven principles. My favorite principle was always the second — Kujichagulia — self-determination, the power to design your own life and determine your own future..." Yada, yada, yada, no one cares.
It's that time of year when Kamala Harris is forced to pretend that kwanzaa was a long family tradition that she grew up with.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 26, 2023
Kamala Harris was born in 1964.
Kwanzaa was a fake holiday invented by a communist professor in 1966 and was not widely known until the early 80s.… pic.twitter.com/L1sbaunIje
Anyone can look up the history of Kwanzaa, discover its history, and see how Kamala’s story is most certainly not true.
American black separatist Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1966 during the aftermath of the Watts riots as a non-Christian, specifically African-American, holiday. Karenga said his goal was to "give black people an alternative to the existing holiday of Christmas and give black people an opportunity to celebrate themselves and their history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant society.” For Karenga, a figure in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the creation of such holidays also underscored the essential premise that "you must have a cultural revolution before the violent revolution. The cultural revolution gives identity, purpose, and direction."
Kamala Harris was born in 1964 — a full two years before Kwanzaa was even invented. Also, Kamala is of Indian and Jamaican dissent — not African. Are we really expected to believe that her family even knew about Kwanzaa when Kamala was a child, let alone celebrated it?
Meanwhile, her parents divorced when she was seven, and her Indian mother had primary custody, which makes it even less likely that Kwanzaa was an annual ritual in their home. Even if we’re to believe that Kamala’s family were early adopters of this made-up holiday — again, extremely unlikely — she embellishes with the line, "And then the elders would talk about how Kwanzaa is a time to celebrate culture, community, and family. And they, of course, taught us about the seven principles,” as if this were a holiday of generational importance when clearly it couldn’t have been.
Who's the worse liar? In fairness, Joe Biden has a few more decades on him from which to build a completely fictional biography, but Kamala is bound to catch up with him in a few years at this rate.
