'I was born black, I will die black': Harris embraced her blackness long before politics
US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris delivers remarks before departing George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, as she returns to Washington, DC. Harris has always embraced both her black and Indian heritage.
Harris was born in Oakland, California, in 1964, to Afro-Jamaican Donald Harris, who came to the US to study economics, and Shyamala Gopalan, who emigrated from India at 19 to pursue her doctorate in nutrition and endocrinology. She took them on trips to India and often expressed affection or frustration in Tamil, Kamala wrote in her 2019 book, The Truths We Hold."She knew that her adopted homeland would see Maya and me as black girls, and she was determined to ensure we grew into confident, proud black women," Harris wrote.
"She's embraced her blackness and her Indian heritage as well," said Kerry Haynie, chair of political science at Duke University, adding that Trump's"race-baiting" attacks were aimed at galvanising his own base. As she progressed through her career - elected San Francisco district attorney in 2003 and California's attorney general in 2010 - she was consistently identified as black or African American in media reports.
Critics questioned the authenticity of his African American experience, and Trump may be using a similar tactic to try to discredit Harris, suggested Clark.
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