Kamala Harris’s ‘middle class’ childhood included private school, Jamaica visits, and wealthy area living

While on camera, Kamala Harris likes to showcase herself as having a regular middle class childhood. However, a deeper look at her upbringing presents another story. Harris and her sister attended private school, had periods of living abroad, and also grew up in some of the wealthiest locales.

From Breitbart:

When asked during the presidential debate if Americans were better off than they were four years ago, she responded, “I was raised a middle-class kid.”

However, a close look at her childhood shows that Harris and her younger sister grew up with many opportunities that many “middle class” children do not have, such as living abroad, private school education, and growing up in some of the wealthiest locales in the world.

But Harris has downplayed her privilege throughout her political career.

On August 31, she described herself as “a daughter of Oakland, California, who was raised by a working mother and had a summer job at McDonald’s.”

While she was born in the Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, at the time, her graduate school parents lived in Berkeley, California — a predominantly white, liberal elite enclave in the San Francisco Bay Area home to UC Berkeley, one of the top public universities in the world.

In fact, that is where her “working mother” — the daughter of an Indian diplomat — and father met as graduate students. Harris’s own father even wrote that Kamala was “born” in Berkeley.

Additional Reading:

Wong, K. (2024, September 24). Weekends in Palo Alto, private school, trips to Jamaica: A look at Kamala Harris’s ‘middle class’ childhood. Breitbart. Link.

Category: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris