Vice President Kamala Harris dropped an f-bomb on stage at an event on Monday, urging Asian-Americans to demand opportunities in their professional lives.
‘Sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open, and sometimes they won’t— and then you need to kick that f***ing door down,’ Harris said during a roundtable discussion with comedian Jimmy O. Yang.
Harris then burst into laughter, briefly apologizing for her use of vulgar language as the audience cheered and applauded.
Kamala Harris speaks to the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Legislative Leadership Summit
Kamala Harris took a sharply different tone than her interview with Drew Barrymore earlier this month
‘We gotta make t-shirts with that saying “kick that f***ing door down,”‘ Yang marveled as Harris continued laughing.
The vice president spoke at the event that was part of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Legislative Leadership Summit in Washington, DC.
Harris’ remark was a sharp contrast to the image she tried to portray on the Drew Barrymore show earlier this month, after the host urged her to be the ‘momala’ of the country.
‘I love Disney. However, Disney kind of messed that up. You know, for a lot of us over the years, you know the evil stepparent,’ Harris said laughing while speaking about her stepchildren. ‘And their word for me is Momala.’
Kamala Harris speaks at the Emily’s List Gala
But Harris has a history of using and defending the use of vulgar language in public.
‘I was told one should not say motherf***ah in these kinds of interviews,’ Harris said during a live podcast taping for the show Pod Save America in 2017, when asked to talk about then-President Donald Trump.
During her failed presidential campaign, Harris repeatedly referred to her ‘favorite curse word’ that ‘starts with an ‘m’ and ends with an ‘ah.’
In 2019, Harris also defended Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) after she proudly promised during a speech to ‘impeach the motherf***er,’ referring to then-President Donald Trump.
“Honestly, my candid response is that she’s not the first nor will she be the last elected person to curse in public,’ Harris said during an interview on The View.
During the event in Washington, Harris spoke at length about serving as the first vice president with both black and Asian American heritage.
‘Breaking barriers does not mean you start at one side of the barrier and you end up on the other side. There’s breaking involved,’ she said. ‘And when you break things you get cut and you may bleed and it is worth it every time. Every time.’
Harris recalled advice from her mother reminding her to never let people tell them who they are.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Head Coach Kim Mulkey attend a ceremony for the Louisiana State University Tigers women’s basketball team
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a speech to voters in Florida
‘You tell them who you are. Don’t ever carry as a personal burden your capacity to do whatever you dream and aspire to do based on other people’s limited ability to see who can do what,’ she added.
Harris said that Asian cultures were taught about the value of ‘duty.’
‘You don’t question it, it just is, and part of that is the duty that we feel when we are the first in particular to understand what that means to people who are not us, I mean, everyone else,’ she said.
Harris described the individual as a core of an onion and cautioned Asians not to minimize the importance of the individual.
‘The individual is at the core of the onion and there is the family, and there is the community and there is, and there is, and all of those things are bigger,’ she said.
She condemned ‘anti-Asian hate’ in the United States.
‘The fear is everywhere, including of course in the Asian community,’ she said.
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