Kamala Harris called out after she posts video about celebrating Kwanzaa as a child

Presumed Vice President-elect Kamala Harris posted a video on Saturday in which she recalled fond memories of celebrating Kwanzaa with her family as a child.

Yet as Breitbart writer Joel B. Pollak noted, the facts surrounding the holiday raise some serious doubts about those recollections.  

“Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories,” Harris tweeted. “The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and we’d tell stories and light the candles.”

“Grew up celebrating”

“I wanted to take a moment to send my warmest wishes to everyone celebrating Kwanzaa,” Harris said in the video, with a Kwanzaa kinara in the backdrop behind her. “You know, my sister and I, we grew up celebrating Kwanzaa.”

Harris continued, “Every year, our family and our extended family we would gather around across multiple generations and we’d tell stories. The kids would sit on the carpet and the elders would sit in chairs.”

“And we would light the candles, and of course afterwards have a beautiful meal. And of course there was always the discussion of the seven principles,” she went on.

“And,” the Democrat added, “my favorite, I have to tell you, was always the one about self-determination: Kujichagulia. And you know, essentially it’s about, you know, it’s about ‘be.’ ‘Be’ and ‘do.'”

Harris claimed that this principle “motivates me today as we seek to confront the challenges facing our country, and build a brighter future for all Americans.”

Dubious timeline

However, Pollak pointed out that the Kwanzaa holiday didn’t even come into existence until 1966, a mere two years after Harris was born. It was created by Maulana Karenga, a left-wing activist who would later go to prison for stripping two women naked and torturing them with hot metal.

Earlier this month, Harris released another cringe-worthy video in which she and her husband Doug Emhoff proclaimed their love for Hanukkah.

That brought criticism from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who accused Harris of trying to turn the Jewish holiday into “leftist social justice warrior nonsense.”

“If you want to ignore the entire message of the holiday, then go with this. So what we learned in this video from Kamala Harris is that Hanukkah, a holiday that I actually celebrate, apparently is … basically, it’s like … Earth Day,” Shapiro said.

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