(SNews) – Vice President Kamala Harris told a bizarre story about a coconut tree but was the only person in the room who laughed about it.
Harris told the story while swearing in commissioners of the “White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics.”
The VP apparently thought her story was funny but no one else was laughing.
She says in the video below: “And it’s not just simply about financial resources; that is a very big part of it.
“But it’s also about: What is the culture of the environment?
“How are we approaching this issue in a way that we also understand we cannot support and help our young people if we also — don’t also look at the context in which those young people live and are being raised?
“Which means necessarily, because our — our edict and our mission is not to come out and say, ‘Well, we could do this better.’
“Part of the extension of the work you will do is, yes, focused on our young leaders and our young people, but understanding we also then have to be clear about the needs of their parents and their grandparents and their teachers and their communities, because none of us just live in a silo.
“Everything is in context.
“My mother used to — she would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?’”
Harris then burst out laughing to crickets from the crowd.
“You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you,” she awkwardly added as she tried to move on.
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