(BPR) Vice President Kamala Harris was reportedly admitted to U.C. Law San Francisco under a hardship program that she allegedly didn’t qualify for.
The Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP) “offers admission to approximately 50 high-achieving students each year—up to 20 percent of the class—who have experienced major life hurdles, such as educational disadvantage, economic hardship, or disability,” according to a UC Law SF Magazine article published in 2018.
The same report lists Harris as part of the school’s ’89 alumni who benefited from LEOP.
This, according to critic Laura Powell, a civil liberties attorney, is a big problem given that Harris was anything but disadvantaged.
“Kamala Harris’s mother came from the highest caste in India, but by moving to the U.S. and Canada, obtaining a prestigious degree, marrying a future Stanford professor, having a successful career as a cancer researcher, and sending her daughter to private schools, her daughter became unusually disadvantaged?” she wrote in a tweet Monday:
Kamala Harris was admitted to law school under a program for students “who have experienced major life hurdles, such as educational disadvantage, economic hardship, or disability.”
Kamala Harris’s mother came from the highest caste in India, but by moving to the U.S. and Canada,… pic.twitter.com/tqnx8OPnx4
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) October 21, 2024
In another tweet, she offered proof of Harris’ privileged upbringing: A Los Angeles Times article from 2004 in which the current vice president’s mother, Shyamala G., recounted taking offense when some male college official assumed her daughter was from a poor background.
“What Shyamala G. Harris understood was that this man assumed her daughter must be an impoverished girl from the rough side of town, not a privileged child of foreign graduate students, whose academic pursuits led them to UC Berkeley,” the Times article reads.
In 2004, Kamala’s mother recounted to an LA Times reporter how she was taken aback when an educator didn’t realize Kamala came from a privileged background.
h/t @CardioNP pic.twitter.com/ntfHDEOozo
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) October 21, 2024
