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These Kamala Harris Memes Didn't Just Fall Out of a Coconut Tree

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Kamala Harris Campaign Gets Memed: The Coconut Tree and Other Brat Kamala Memes Explained Even before being endorsed for the democratic nominee, Kamala Harris was already a meme star. Now the VP is embracing her ...
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The meme has quickly gone from ironic to iconic, and the Harris campaign is riding that wave like its life depends on it. Practically ubiquitous, the coconut tree meme comes from a portion of Harris’s speech at a May 2023 ceremony for the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics, when she shared a brief anecdote about her mother.

“She would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us: ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree,’” Harris recalled in her speech, adding, “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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