In a video that resurfaced on social media Monday, US Vice President and Democrat party 2024 presidential nominee Kamala Harris said "everybody needs to be woke," while speaking at the 2017 Recode's annual Code Conference, alongside philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, during the conference.
During the Recode conference which focused on issues such as immigration and the environment, Harris spoke out against the Trump administration's strict immigration polices just moments ahead of her "woke" comment.
"We have to stay woke. Like everybody needs to be woke," Harris said, cackling. "And you can talk about if you're the wokest or woker, but just stay more woke than less woke." She also posted on X: "We have to stay active. We have to stay woke. #codecon."
The term woke colloquially refers to leftists advocating for LGBTQ degeneracy, open borders, abortion-on-demand and anti-white racism. The left in America started using it to virtue-signal to their supporters. However in recent years, conservatives in the west use it derogatively against the left.
The video of Harris' remarks went viral and sparked condemnations and ridicule on social media.
"Kamala is a low-level Communist functionary, and I'm tired of being told we have to pretend she's not," an X user wrote of Harris. Another writes: "Kamala Harris is too radical for the White House."
Harris became the Democrat nominee in what political observers called a coup by billionaire party elite against President Joe Biden who was forced to drop out of the race..