A Vice President Harris line – “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” – is all over social media paired with a Charli XCX “Brat” song this summer.
Vice President Harris speaks during a campaign event at Westover High School in Fayetteville, N.C., on Thursday. This is the question that Vice President Harris is asking — in video clips posted all over social media.
Even if you are chronically online, the discourse right now can be hard to understand. Here’s what to know about the Harris coconut tree memes as the memes proliferate — and potentially become a rallying cry for the critical youth vote.mashup: “If Kamala runs and wins historians will have to study the significance of what this edit did for America.
Searches for “Kamala” and “coconut tree” were already spiking amid pressure for Biden to step aside. But after Biden’s announcement, it seemed many Democrats got on board — including Harris herself, whose rapid response team changed its bio to “As the endorsements started rolling in for Harris, so did the coconut emoji, memes and remixes.
Divisive terms such as “coconut” are sometimes used by those outside and within Black and Asian communities to suggest that like a coconut, an individual is Brown on the outside but perceived as White or Eurocentric on the inside.A British Asian woman was charged for a racially aggravated public order offense in London in November after holding a sign depicting Britain’s then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman as coconuts at a pro-Palestinian rally.
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