A viral social media post claims that Vice President Kamala Harris lied about being from Oakland, California. “Kamala — in a pathetic attempt at pandering — claims she came from ‘Oakland’ when she arrived at Howard University, and that all her friends were from Detroit,” the post says. “This is a total lie. Kamala came from the Canadian province of Quebec.”
The video shows Harris at a campaign stop in Detroit earlier this week. “When I got to Howard, when I went to college, coming from Oakland, my immediate fast friends were from Detroit,” Harris told the audience at Detroit’s Cred Cafe.
The post is misleading. While Harris did live in Quebec prior to enrolling at Howard in 1982, she was born in California and spent a plurality of her childhood there.
