Kamala Harris Drops F Bomb When Asked About Breaking Barriers

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Vice President Kamala Harris used a profanity on Monday while offering advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders about how to break through barriers.

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00:00 So here's the thing about breaking barriers. Breaking barriers does not mean you start

00:05 on one side of the barrier and you end up on the other side. There's breaking involved.

00:12 And when you break things, you get cut. And you may bleed. And it is worth it every time.

00:21 Every time. And so, too, especially the young people here, I say to you, when you walk in

00:28 those rooms, being the only one that looks like you, the only one with your background,

00:36 you walk in those rooms, chin up, shoulders back. Be it a meeting room, a boardroom, a

00:41 courtroom, a hearing room. You walk in those rooms knowing that we are all in that room

00:48 with you, applauding you on and expecting certain things from you. Including that you

00:57 will not be silent in those rooms. And that we expect that from you because we also expect

01:05 that you will internalize and know we're there with you. And so your voice can be strong.

01:14 It is, as Alicia said, my mother would say to me, don't you ever let anybody tell you

01:19 who you are. You tell them who you are. Don't ever carry as a personal burden your capacity

01:29 to do whatever you dream and aspire to do based on other people's limited ability to

01:36 see who can do what. This is part of what's involved. Is that we have to know that sometimes

01:47 people will open the door for you and leave it open, sometimes they won't. And then you

01:52 need to kick that fucking door down. Excuse my language.

02:00 [LAUGHTER]

02:04 (laughing)

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