Did Kamala Harris fake a photo with her long-dead grandmother to prove that she’s Black?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : Kamala Harris faked photo with her long-dead grandmother!
Some people are claiming or suggesting (example / example / example) that Kamala Harris faked a photo with her long-dead grandmother to prove that she’s Black!
As evidence, they are sharing a video by Candace Owens and/or a website screenshot showing that Kamala Harris’ grandmother died 4 years before she was born. Here is a transcript of the Candace Owens video:
As speculated, we were able to confirm that Kamala’s black grandmother that she showed us in that picture died in 1960, before Kamala was born. I can show you right now, her death certificate.
Let’s take a look at Beryl’s death certificate, which confirms, as you can see there, it says that she died in July of 1960. It also tells us on the right hand side, you guys will probably have to zoom in on this, but she died of a uterine infection, fibroids due to a hysterectomy.
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Truth : Kamala Harris did not fake photo with her long-dead grandmother!
This is yet another example of fake news about Kamala Harris, and here are the reasons why…
Kamala Harris’ grandmother is Beryl Christie Harris
First, let me just start by pointing out that Kamala Harris’ grandmother was born Beryl Christie Finegan, and was later known as Beryl Christie Harris after her marriage to Oscar Joseph Harris.
Claim appears to be based on wrong record
The claim that Kamala Harris’ grandmother died 4 years before she was born appears to be based on the wrong death record on an open-source website called Find a Grave. That could explain why people are sharing a screenshot, instead of the link to the actual page.
If you go to the actual page for Memorial ID 272680650, you will notice it is for a different woman – Beril Madeline Finegan Harris.
The memorial page also does not show a photo of Kamala Harris’ grandmother, and instead shows the death certificate in Candace Owens’ video. Is this the source she relied on?
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Details can be edited by members
Details on the Find a Grave website appears to be open-sourced, allowing members to edit details, and upload photos and images.
If we look at the links Google cached (upper right corner of my screenshot above), we can see that the page changed from Beryl Christie Finegan Harris (1921-1960) to Beril Magdeline Finegan Harris (1917-1960).
In other words, information on such websites is not only open to abuse, it is susceptible to mistakes, and should not be considered reliable or accurate.
Death registration form appears to be of a different woman
The death registration form that Candace Owens showed in her video appears to be a spinster (unmarried) woman who worked as a clerk, and died when she was just 39 years old.
Her name appeared to be Beryl Christie, which would mean that her surname was Christie. That would rule her out as Kamala Harris’ grandmother, whose surname was Finegan, while her married name was Harris.
It’s a bit hard to read the cursive writing, but it appears that Ms. Beryl Christie died while undergoing a hysterectomy after suffering peritonitis and paralytic ileus from uterine fibroids.
The family member who reported her death appears to be Muriel Murray. That does not sound like anyone in the Finegan or Harris family.
Also, Beryl Christie appeared to have been living at 28 Blue Castle Drive in the St. Andrew Parish, but died in the district and parish of Kingston. That’s a distance from the St. Ann parish she was born, and where she gave birth to Donald J. Harris – Kamala Harris’ father.
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Kamala Harris’ grandmother likely died in 1995
It is likely that Kamala Harris’ grandmother died on 3 September 1995, as this death certificate (credit : The Sassiest Minx in MN) shows – about 5 years after Kamala Harris took that photo with her in 1990.
Her name is listed as Beryl Finnegan (her maiden name), which could explain why her condition was listed as spinster (she was actually a widower as her husband, Patrick, died in 1928).
The death certificate also showed that Beryl Finnegan was born, lived and died in the St. Ann parish. And the person who reported her death was a Douglas Finnegan – likely a member of her own family.
If this death certificate is accurate, Kamala Harris’ grandmother died when she was 81 years old, from septicaemia caused by bed sore(s).
If this is the actual death certificate for Kamala Harris’ grandmother, Beryl, she would have been born in 1914 (not 1917 or 1921).
It would correlate with the photo Kamala Harris took with her, while she was in Jamaica in 1990. There is no way the lady in that photo is in her thirties. She looked like she was at least in her 60s or 70s.
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Kamala Harris’ great grandmother died in 1981
It is unlikely that Kamala Harris took a photo with her paternal great grandmother Iris in the 1990s and tried to pass it off as her grandmother Beryl instead.
That’s because “Miss Iris” (born Iris Finegan in 1888) died in 1981 (source), while that photo was supposedly taken in 1990.
Kamala Harris’ paternal great grandmother would have been 102 years old in 1990, if she did not pass away 9 years earlier.
The two woman look alike because they are mother (Iris) and daughter (Beryl). It’s not a magic trick. It’s not Photoshop.
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