VP Harris tells Plagiarized Story

With the VP in news, here is her favorite story, as told in 2021:

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has repeatedly shared an anecdote about her younger self crying out for "Fweedom!" — which has led this week to accusations of plagiarism.

"My mother used to laugh when she told the story about a time I was fussing as a toddler: She leaned down to me and asked, 'Kamala, what's wrong? What do you want?' And I wailed back, 'Fweedom,'" Harris wrote in her 2010 book "Smart on Crime."

Harris also detailed her younger self demanding "Fweedom!" in her 2019 book "The Truths We Hold: An American Journey."

Her story, which was documented as early as 2004 in an interview with W Magazine, was also retold multiple times on camera.

In June, in the early weeks of the civil unrest following the death of George Floyd, Harris told her "Fweedom" anecdote during an appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show."

Plagiarized from M.L. King:

Harris' story resembled one told by King in a 1965 interview published in Playboy.

"I will never forget a moment in Birmingham when a White policeman accosted a little Negro girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with her mother," King said at the time. "'What do you want?' the policeman asked her gruffly, and the little girl looked at him straight in the eye and answered, 'Fee-dom.' She couldn't even pronounce it, but she knew. 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."

Here are some Harris video clips, from the Trump campaign.