Vice president-elect Kamala Harris shared an inspiring childhood story in a recent interview with ELLE magazine. It soon turned out that her recollection bears a striking resemblance to a story already told by Martin Luther King.

„My mum asked Baby, what do you want? What do you need? And I just looked at her and I said, Fweedom, ” Kamala Harris told ELLE magazine in a recent interview, recalling a childhood memory of a civil rights march she took part in with her mother.

Activist Andray Domise pointed out that the charming recollection of Biden s vice president was lifted from a 1965 Playboy interview with Dr Martin Luther King, who told a strikingly similar story about a girl in Alabama.

„I never will forget a moment in Birmingham, when a white policeman accosted a little Negro girl … who was walking in a demonstration with her mother. What do you want? the policeman aked her gruffly, and the little girl looked him straight in the eye and answered Fee-dom. She could not event pronounce it, but she knew. It was beautiful!”, King said in the interview.

As the PostMillenial pointed out, this isn t the first time Harris has been accused of telling stories from her childhood that weren t her own. She tweeted about Kwanzaa celebrations (an African American winter holiday starting on 26 December) being „one of her childhood memories,” a claim that s turned out to be untrue, because the Harris family celebrated Christmas that December.