Can’t look ahead to her ‘I Have a Dream’ speech! Kamala Harris accused of STEALING story from Martin Luther King in journal interview

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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has been accused of plagiarizing a narrative from Martin Luther King after web sleuths noticed uncanny similarities between “private” anecdotes informed by the civil rights chief and the VP-to-be.

The obvious plagiarism was observed on Monday, with netizens declaring that in an interview with Elle journal over the autumn, Harris informed a narrative that’s almost an identical to a reminiscence shared by Dr. King some 56 years in the past in a sit-down with Playboy.

Whereas talking with Elle in October, Harris relayed what she claimed was a private story from her youth, explaining that through the first civil rights march she attended as a younger baby, she was separated from her mother and father after falling out of her stroller.

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“My mom tells the story about how I’m fussing,” Harris informed the journal. “And she or he’s like ‘Child, what would you like? What do you want?’ And I simply checked out her and mentioned: ‘Fweedom.’”

Nevertheless, observers observed the story has unmistakable similarities to an anecdote informed by King throughout a 1965 Playboy interview – particularly a younger woman’s endearing mispronunciation of the phrase “freedom” at a civil rights rally.

“I by no means will overlook a second in Birmingham when a white policeman accosted slightly negro woman, seven or eight years outdated, who was strolling in an illustration along with her mom,” King informed Playboy’s Alex Haley.

‘What would you like?’ the policeman requested her gruffly, and the little woman seemed him straight within the eye and answered, ‘Charge-dom.’ She couldn’t even pronounce it, however she knew. It was stunning!

A contributing editor at Mclean’s, Andray Domise, was among the many first to level out the likeness on Twitter, rapidly racking up 1000’s of shares whereas poking enjoyable on the vice president-elect.

Furthermore, it seems Harris didn’t confine the story to her interview with Elle, telling the identical anecdote in print on quite a lot of different events, together with in two totally different books.

Some high-profile tweeters, corresponding to conservative-leaning actor Nick Searcy, blasted the long run VP, calling her obvious anecdotal appropriation a “shame to the legacy of Dr. King,” whereas steel musician Phil Labonte mentioned Harris is “each bit as filled with s**t as Trump.”

“How low, how venal, how utterly missing in integrity do you must be to steal a narrative from MLK, of all individuals?” one other netizen requested.

Others drew comparisons to Harris’ fellow Democratic pols, one noting that her operating mate Joe Biden, now the president-elect, has additionally come beneath fireplace for a number of allegations of plagiarism over the a long time, suggesting the 2 “went to plagiary college collectively.”

Failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton additionally was not spared mockery, with one other commenter recalling a narrative she informed about NASA in 2019 – alleging the house company responded to a letter she wrote as a baby and informed her they “weren’t taking ladies” – deemed doubtful by critics.

Whereas many roasted Harris for the ostensible plagiarism, some tried to reconcile her story with King’s, suggesting, jokingly, that Harris was the exact same “little woman” the civil rights chief referenced in 1964.

“Really Martin Luther King made it up. He knew she was coming alongside sooner or later and it might occur to her. And she or he knew too. Easy,” one other netizen joked.

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Nevertheless, one eager observer shot again that the idea “doesn’t precisely add up,” given Harris’ age and the yr King informed his anecdote.

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