It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Well, the race to define Kamala Harris is on by her campaign, by her supporters, and by her detractors.

Have you heard or seen the memes yet that say Kamala Harris is brat or have you seen

the coconut tree meme?

The campaign couldn't have scripted anything more powerful to come out of the gate with

for many young voters, especially than the music music superstar Charlie X-E-X did

herself without being asked. If you don't know, her album, Brat, was already the pop music

soundtrack of this summer. It had a color associated with it, too, which is green. And as soon as

Biden ended his campaign the other day and endorsed Harris, Charlie XEX declared

on social media that Kamala Harris is brat. And little video memes started showing up on TikTok

and Instagram and elsewhere with Harris tinted green and the phrase Kamala is brat or others like it.

Then there's the coconut tree meme.

If you haven't seen this yet, you probably will.

Harris with coconuts or little coconut trees in little videos people are making on the web.

And here's what that refers to.

In May of last year, Harris, as vice president, was speaking at an event for the White

House initiative on advancing educational equity, excellence, and economic opportunity for

Hispanics. Long title, but that was the event. And for some reason, people remembered this

little story that she told in that speech about something her mother used to say.

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?

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