Kamala Harris Just Won’t Stop Using Widely Mocked and Memed Trademark Phrase

Alex GriffingJul 11th, 2024, 5:27 pm
 

Kamala Harris

Vice President Kamala Harris has become known for a signature phrase, one which has been mocked widely by critics and been adopted online as both a joke and meme. On Thursday, Harris used the phrase yet again while giving a speech in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Harris said, “And I grew up then in a community like this one, where the people who were raising us, I look at Devon, I think about my childhood. We grew up in a community of people who, when we were young, they told us, literally, you are young, gifted, and Black.”

She concluded her inspirational remarks, “They taught us that we could do anything. And should never be burdened by the limitations of other people to be able or not be able to see what can be done. And this is that community who understands and can see what is possible, unburdened by what has been.”

Last December, the RNC’s online opposition research account put together a mash-up of Harris using the phrase repeatedly.“Here are four straight minutes of Kamala Harris being ‘unburdened,’” wrote the account, which reshared the clip in recent weeks as Harris has figured more prominently in the media amid speculation of her replacing President Joe Biden atop the ticket.

In the weeks since the phrase has been turned into a joke, used for everything from celebrating the 4th of July to roasting New York City’s new plan to use bins to collect garbage from the street. Below are some more examples of Harris’s signature phrase, which she doesn’t seem ready to give up anytime soon, entering the cultural zeitgeist.

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