US ELECTION: Who Is Kamala Harris?

THE US VICE PRESIDENTIAL PICK AIMS TO ADD TO HER LIST OF FIRSTS.

Accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination to run as vice president of the United States alongside presidential candidate Joe Biden, Kamala Harris spent 18 minutes outlining her inspiration and motivation She described growing up with “a stroller’s eye view of the civil rights movement”, saying her mother, a cancer researcher from India, and her father, an economist from Jamaica, met as graduate students while marching together for justice at the University of California in Berkeley in the 1960s. After they divorced, Harris and her sister Maya were raised, mostly, by her mum, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, who passed away at 70 from colon cancer in 2009.
“Oh, how I wish she were here tonight,” the senator said of her activist mother. “I know she’s looking down on me from above. I keep thinking about that 25-year-old Indian woman, all of [152cm] tall, who gave birth to me at Kaiser hospital in Oakland, California. On that day, she probably could have never imagined that I would be standing before you now and speaking these words: I accept your nomination for vice president of the United States of America.