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Kamala creates panic, statement on hurricane relief to be race-based, focus on ‘equity’ taken ‘out of context,’ fact-checkers say

October 1, 2022 | | Print Article

Vice President Kamala Harris demonstrated Friday that there is no issue that cannot be made about race and may have incited panic in the process as it was reported she suggested the federal government’s response to Hurricane Ian would be “based on equity.”

Fact-checkers at The Associated Press, Reuters and PolitiFact have said her comment that disaster relief will be directed toward “communities of color” has been taken out of context and misrepresented online.

“Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a DNC event about distributing equitable resources to help with the effects of climate change. She did not say that Hurricane Ian relief will be distributed based on race, as some claimed online,” the AP noted.

As all events are just pivots to furthering the woke agenda, while Harris was speaking about climate change with actress Priyanka Chopra at the Democratic National Committee’s Women’s Leadership Forum Friday, she took a softball opportunity to unite around helping those devastated to drive another wedge through race politics.

“I know we are all thinking about the families in Florida and Puerto Rico,” Harris offered as she turned to the serious impact of the hurricane and “what we need to do to help them in terms of an immediate response and aid.”

“It is our lowest income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making,” the vice president contended. The overwhelming majority of the population impacted by Ian reportedly is white from an array of economic backgrounds.

She pushed her politics over real solutions as she continued.

“We have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity. Understanding not everyone starts out at the same place, and if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities,” she said.

Harris’ implication was said to cause real concern for people in Florida, and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ rapid response director Christina Pushaw slammed the vice president for making false statements leading to panic.

“This is false. @VP’s rhetoric is causing undue panic and must be clarified,” she wrote as she provided the contact information for anyone in need of help. “FEMA Individual Assistance is already available to all Floridians impacted by Hurricane Ian, regardless of race or background.”

Pushaw later went on to demand a clarification from Harris as she also took down corporate media for not holding the vice president to account for her divisive and dangerous comments.

“The @VP needs to correct what she said as well. A real journalist would simply ask her to clarify what she meant by those comments and why she misrepresented the relief effort,” she tweeted.

The campaign spokeswoman wasn’t alone in decrying what was being reported as an awful take from Harris as many reacted including billionaire Elon Musk. In response to Students for Trump founder Ryan Fournier’s take, the Tesla CEO wrote, “Should be according to greatest need, not race or anything else.”

Fournier had stated, “You can’t make this up. Kamala Harris said the administration will be giving hurricane resources ‘based on equity’ by directing funds to ‘communities of color.’ I guess everyone else is just screwed.”

As previously reported, while visiting the Demilitarized Zone between South and North Korea this week, Harris bungled her remarks and claimed that we had a strong alliance with North Korea.

“The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea and it is an alliance that is strong and enduring,” she stated before adding, “I cannot state enough that the commitment of the United States to the defense of the Republic of Korea is iron-clad and that we will do everything in our power to ensure that it has meaning in every way that the words suggest.”

Following those remarks, Fox News reported that North Korea had fired its fourth ballistic missile within seven days Saturday. Two of the prior launches had occurred hours after Harris had left South Korea with each of the missiles fired into the East Sea.

Editor’s note: This post has been updated to include claims by fact-checkers that the vice president’s comments were missing context in reports.

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