Har­ris says ‘every­body needs to be woke’ in unearthed clip spread­ing like wild­fire on social media

A clip of Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris from 2017 call­ing on “every­body” to be “woke” resur­faced on social media, spark­ing crit­ics and con­ser­v­a­tives to lam­baste the offi­cial Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee as a “Com­mu­nist func­tionary” who is “too rad­i­cal” to serve as pres­i­dent. “We have to stay woke. Like every­body needs to be woke. And you can talk about if you’re the wok­est or wok­er, but just stay more woke than less woke,” then-Sen. Har­ris said in 2017 dur­ing Recode’s annu­al Code Con­fer­ence, along­side phil­an­thropist Lau­rene Pow­ell Jobs, the wid­ow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, dur­ing the con­fer­ence. The con­fer­ence focused on issues such as immi­gra­tion and the envi­ron­ment, includ­ing Har­ris speak­ing out against the Trump admin­is­tra­tion’s drug poli­cies and immi­gra­tion polices just moments ahead of her call on Amer­i­cans to be “woke.” “I get upset when we say we’re going t …