A journalist who grew up in the same neighborhood where Kamala Harris spent her formative years is calling out the Democrat's "phony" and "chameleon-like" persona.
As a teenager, Harris lived in Westmount, a wealthy suburb of French-speaking Montreal that Breitbart editor Emma-Jo Morris describes as "one of the luckiest places someone could live."
Westmount is a "a beautiful, safe, quiet, child-friendly community," Morris wrote, noting that Harris' mother, a breast cancer researcher from India, was considered a "pioneer" at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital.
When she was 12, Harris moved to Montreal with her sister and their divorced mother. They had a comfortable, stable life in a Victorian home.
Harris' former best friend described the home as a comfortable place "where Indian rice dishes simmered and studying was mandatory," the New York Times reported.
But as a politician, Harris has presented herself as someone from "the streets." Morris, who grew up blocks away from where Harris was raised, mocked the idea that Harris had a rough childhood.
Westmount is "one of the luckiest places someone could live" and Harris "implying that it’s the 'streets' is like an ironic joke many who grow up there make," Morris wrote.
"Watching her, as someone who grew up the same way, in the same place, with the same culture, I am stunned at the person she portrays herself to be," Morris wrote.
Last week, President Trump set off a political explosion by accusing half-Indian Harris of embracing a black image for her own gain. While the media have defended Harris' use of African American vernacular as "code-switching," others see it as a form of impersonation.
Morris argued that Harris' pronounced southern black inflection, prominently displayed at a recent rally in Atlanta, Georgia, is a fabrication, based on her Canadian upbringing.
"If anyone reading this column listens to my radio interviews on Breitbart News Daily, they know I pronounce the current year as twenty-twenty-four,' with trademark Canadian hard T’s and R’s," Morris wrote.
"Kamala Harris, who grew up literally 8 blocks west of me, now pronounces the current year 'tweny-tweny-fow."
Harris has been estranged from her Jamaican-born economist father since her parents' bitter divorce and custody battle. In 2019, her father spoke out to condemn her embrace of stereotypes about Jamaicans consuming marijuana.
