Kamala Harris accused of stealing “fweedom” story from 1965 MLK interview

Care to explain, Kamala?

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During an October interview with Elle magazine, Kamala Harris shared a heartwarming story from her childhood.

The catch? It’s nearly identical to a story Martin Luther King Jr. told back in 1965.

The magazine opened with the story, which goes like this: Harris was attending a civil rights march in Oakland, California when she accidentally fell out of her stroller without the adults realizing.

“By the time they noticed little Kamala was gone and doubled back, she was understandably upset,” the article reads. “‘My mother tells the story about how I’m fussing,’ Harris says, ‘and she’s like, ‘Baby what do you want? What do you need?’ And I just looked at her and I said, ‘Fweedom.’”

This same story is also told in her 2010 book “Smart on Crime” and her 2019 book “The Truths We Hold,” the Daily Caller reports.

But was this story really Kamala’s to tell?

The recollection shares an uncanny resemblance to a portion of writer Alex Haley’s Martin Luther King Jr. interview, published by Playboy over 50 years earlier.

During the interview, MLK recalled “a moment” where a young black girl was “accosted” by a white police officer during a demonstration.

He said that the girl looked the policeman in the eye and told him she wanted “fee-dom.”

“I never will forget a moment in Birmingham when a white policeman accosted a little ne*** girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with her mother,” he recalled. “‘What do you want?’ the policeman asked her gruffly, and the little girl looked him straight in the eye and answered, ‘Fee-dom.’ She couldn’t even pronounce it, but she knew,” he continued. “It was beautiful! Many times when I have been in sorely trying situations, the memory of that little one has come into my mind, and has buoyed me.”

Care to explain, Kamala?

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During an October interview with Elle magazine, Kamala Harris shared a heartwarming story from her childhood.

The catch? It’s nearly identical to a story Martin Luther King Jr. told back in 1965.

The magazine opened with the story, which goes like this: Harris was attending a civil rights march in Oakland, California when she accidentally fell out of her stroller without the adults realizing.

“By the time they noticed little Kamala was gone and doubled back, she was understandably upset,” the article reads. “‘My mother tells the story about how I’m fussing,’ Harris says, ‘and she’s like, ‘Baby what do you want? What do you need?’ And I just looked at her and I said, ‘Fweedom.’”

This same story is also told in her 2010 book “Smart on Crime” and her 2019 book “The Truths We Hold,” the Daily Caller reports.

But was this story really Kamala’s to tell?

The recollection shares an uncanny resemblance to a portion of writer Alex Haley’s Martin Luther King Jr. interview, published by Playboy over 50 years earlier.

During the interview, MLK recalled “a moment” where a young black girl was “accosted” by a white police officer during a demonstration.

He said that the girl looked the policeman in the eye and told him she wanted “fee-dom.”

“I never will forget a moment in Birmingham when a white policeman accosted a little ne*** girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with her mother,” he recalled. “‘What do you want?’ the policeman asked her gruffly, and the little girl looked him straight in the eye and answered, ‘Fee-dom.’ She couldn’t even pronounce it, but she knew,” he continued. “It was beautiful! Many times when I have been in sorely trying situations, the memory of that little one has come into my mind, and has buoyed me.”

Care to explain, Kamala?