How Kamala Harris Humiliated Herself in Puerto Rico

It's best to take it easy when you don’t understand the language. It’s a simple rule that Vice President Kamala Harris did not follow during her trip to Puerto Rico last week. Harris was there to promote the Biden administration’s aid plan to the island following Hurricane Maria. Let’s say the reception of Harris’s visit was not met with universal praise. A man singing a protest song in Spanish came within earshot of the vice president, who started to clap along and smile to the beat. An aide had to tell her what the lyrics meant (via NY Post):

Veep Kamala Harris was cluelessly clapping along and all smiles as a man began singing in Spanish outside a community center in Puerto Rico last week — until she was told what he was actually saying. 

The vice president, 59, had ventured into a courtyard after her visit to the Goyoco community center in San Juan when the protester broke into song in Spanish. 

Trying to be friendly, the unwitting Harris nodded and clapped along — but then an aide appeared to inform her about what the lyrics meant, and suddenly she stopped. 

“We want to know, Kamala, what did you come here for? We want to know,” the man sang, according to multiple translations. “The vice president is here making history. We want to know what she thinks of the colony.

“Long live Free Palestine and Haiti, too.”