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From Fox News: A clip of Vice President Kamala Harris from 2017 calling on “everybody” to be “woke” resurfaced on social media, sparking critics and conservatives to lambaste the official Democratic nominee as a “Communist functionary” who is “too radical” to serve as president.
“We have to stay woke. Like everybody needs to be woke. And you can talk about if you’re the wokest or woker, but just stay more woke than less woke,” then-Sen. Harris said in 2017 during Recode’s annual Code Conference, alongside philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, during the conference.
The conference focused on issues such as immigration and the environment, including Harris speaking out against the Trump administration’s drug policies and immigration polices just moments ahead of her call on Americans to be “woke.”
“I get upset when we say we’re going to shut our door to refugees who are fleeing such atrocities and have been standing in line for two years to qualify for refugee status, and they arrive here, and we turn them away. Yes, I’m gonna get mad about that. I’m gonna get mad when we have an attorney general who’s trying to resuscitate the war on drugs. And he thinks the greatest evil that mankind has ever seen is marijuana. … Leave grandma’s medical marijuana alone,” Harris said.
WATCH the clip below, which is going viral on social media. The following post by prominent X user “MAZE” was just posted about 3:30 pm ET and already has over 2.7 million views in the first 3 and one-half hours.
Kamala Harris: “We have to stay woke. Like everybody needs to be woke.” pic.twitter.com/ueVP2hpSup
— MAZE (@mazemoore) August 5, 2024
A day after the conference, Harris brazenly repeated her comment in a social media post, writing, “We have to stay active. We have to stay woke. #codecon.”
We have to stay active. We have to stay woke. #codecon
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) June 1, 2017
Harris says ‘everybody needs to be woke’ in unearthed clip spreading like wildfire on social media https://t.co/Q9DvcWXsHq
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 5, 2024
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