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The Grapes of Wrath: Kamala Harris claims to eat first in her 20s over labor boycott, but dates don't add up

Vice President Kamala Harris said in a Labor Day interview that she ate grapes for the first time in her 20s because she "never crossed the picket line." However, a review of the date reveals issues with the account concerned.

From the time Harris was 19 to his 36, labor activists were avoiding eating his grapes at the table. So, if her story is true, Harris actually ignored her line on Piquet.

"I hate to say this because it sounds weird, but you know, I didn't eat grapes until she was in her 20s," Harris told The Nation. {10 in an interview published Monday.

``Literally like I had never eaten grapes. I remember the first time I ate grapes.

But Harris' story contradicts the timeline of three major grape boycotts led by César Chavez's United Farm Workers.

The UFW launched the third and longest boycott of California grapes in June 1984, just four months before Harris' 20th birthday. ,continued until 2000.36.

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that she didn't eat grapes until her 20s because of a union-led boycott.
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The Office of the Vice President requested comments on the post on the differences.

This is not the first time Harris's story has been called into question by a review of historical dates. During the campaign for , then-President Donald Trump and his allies attacked Harris as unprincipled a "fake."

For example, in a 2019 radio interview that Harris lied about smoking marijuana while listening to Tupac and Snoop in college. I'm saying } dog.

United Farm Workers head Cesar Chavez led several boycotts on grapes — with the last ending in 2000.
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He graduated, long before Tupac released his first album in 1991, and about seven years before Snoop Dogg released his first album in 1993. I listened to it when I was high, but not necessarily in college. But the episode became a campaign spark, especially due to the fact that Harris oversaw 1,900 marijuana convictions as the San Francisco District Attorney. He got a fever for allegedly plagiarizing Martin Luther King, Jr. right hero.

Harris' claimed support for the UFW strike doesn't match up with the dates.
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Vice President's surprise about eating grapes It grabbed social media attention Monday before Timeline's review by an explanatory post.

Harris was born in 1964. It was just before the first grape boycott, in which the UFW called for higher wages and better working conditions. Her first UFW boycott of her grapes ended in 1970, when Harris was five years old. A second boycott began in 1973 and ended in 1978, three years after her.