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THE ANGELS. She grew up in a black area and had immigrant parents who divorced when she was little.
In just a few weeks, Kamala Harris, 55, could become the new vice president of the United States.
But now Joe Biden’s trump card has ended in bad weather, due to his roots.
The Washington DC-based senator from California is the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father.
“He had no idea of his Indian origin,” his longtime friend and former law school classmate Matthew Davis recently told the Washington Post.
This is something Harris’s political opponents have mostly thrown at. They insinuate that for political reasons she has only emphasized her black roots.
But he definitely rules out Harris.
– I grew up with great pride and understanding of my Indian heritage and culture, he says.
Cancer researcher and economist
His mother was Shyamala Gopalan, a cancer researcher from India. At the University of California, Berkeley, Gopalan fell in love with Donald Harris, an economist from Jamaica.
They were married and on October 20, 1964, Kamala was born. Four years later, their second daughter, Maya, was born.
Photo: Kamala Harris / AP campaign
Kamala Harris’s parents, Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris.
Photo: Kamala Harris / AP campaign
Mother, left, during a rally in Berkeley, California.
Together, the parents shared a passion for the American civil rights movement, which spread to their daughters.
“My first demonstration was in a stroller,” the vice presidential candidate wrote in the autobiography, “The Truths We Hold,” which was released in January last year.
Marriage broke up
But political interest could not save the parents’ marriage. When Harris was seven years old, she and her little sister moved in with their mother to their own home.
It was at the same time that the United States tried to solve segregation problems by transporting students by bus from primarily lower- and middle-class areas to affluent white areas.
– I was a girl from that area, Harris said when he ran in the Democratic presidential election campaign and harshly criticized Biden for being against the policy.
She later found herself in a different school environment when the trio moved to Montreal after her mother landed a job as a cancer researcher at a Canadian hospital.
During this period, the family traveled several times to India, where the girls met relatives, learned to cook Indian food, and bought Indian jewelry.
University with black ancestry
But when Harris went on to study, the choice fell on Howard University, a black university in Washington.
For Harris, none of this has been controversial.
Photo: Gerry Broome / AP
Kamala Harris, 55, is reluctant to talk about her private life.
“My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters,” she wrote in the biography.
“She knew her adopted land would see Maya and me as black girls. She made sure we grew up to be confident and proud black women.”
successful career
After graduating as a lawyer in 1990, his career went smoothly. Harris returned to California, where he first became a prosecutor in Oakland concentrating on sex crimes, then in San Francisco, where he cracked down on adolescent prostitution.
In 2003, she began her journey to Washington when she was the first black and Asian woman elected district attorney in San Francisco. Eight years later, she made history again when she was elected California Attorney General.
In 2016, he stepped up to the United States Senate.
Photo: Carolyn Kaster / AP
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
In just a few weeks, you can climb to the second highest rank in the United States.
But before that, she may be forced to resolve the storm around her roots.
– She was my first choice. We’ll see how it works, a pleased President Donald Trump recently said in what may be a sign of a tough election campaign.
Few words about privacy
But it’s not just Harris’s political opponents who are wondering about his lack of privacy.
One journalist noted how Barack Obama, who had a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, recounted how he struggled with questions about ethnicity, identity and ethnicity, and wondered if she would not do the same.
– No, was the answer.
He later explained his reluctance to discuss the issue.
– It’s not about me. It’s about the people I represent.
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