Joe Biden's running-mate pick won’t just be the first Black woman on a major party ticket. She’s also the first Indian American.
“She knew that in America, her daughters would be treated, for better or worse, as Black women and Black children, and she raised us with a sense of pride about who we were,” Harris said. But it was “never to the exclusion of always being very proud and very active in terms of our Indian culture as well.”
Now that Harris will be the Democratic nominee for vice president, many South Asian American voters said they hoped her Indian background would get equal time.Neil Makhija, executive director of IMPACT, a Philadelphia-based civic organization that helps recruit, train, and elect Indian Americans at all levels of government.I think it’s encouraging to see her South Asian background finally getting attention in the media.
The attention it keeps getting will depend in part on Harris’ willingness to use her personal biography as a political tool. As reporter Jamilah King noted in a Mother Jones story last year as Harris was gearing up her unsuccessful presidential bid, the senatorviral momentpersonal anecdote about being a member of the second class to desegregate Berkeley’s public schools through a bussing program ― was the high point of her presidential campaign.Twitter earlier this week by Harris’ sister“My mother was a proud woman. She was a brown woman. She was a woman with a heavy accent,” Harris says in the clip.
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