The Untold Story Of Kamala Harris' Childhood

Kamala Harris wears many hats. She's a vice presidential contender. She's a Democratic senator. But before anything else, she was Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan's daughter, two immigrant academics who met after they traveled to the University of California Berkeley for graduate school.
Gopalan, who was Indian, opted to reject the cultural tradition of arranged unions to marry Donald Harris, a Jamaican, who would go on to teach economics at Stanford. They married while they were still at Berkeley, and Harris was born in Oakland, where her mother worked.
Harris' parents were active in the protests that defined the '60s, and she tells everyone she grew up with a, quote, "stroller-eye view of the civil rights movement" because her parents would take her to rallies and demonstrations when she was just a child.
She told The Washington Post,
"I grew up in a hot spot of the civil rights movement. But that civil rights movement involved Blacks, it involved Jews, it involved Asians, it involved Chicanos, it involved a multitude of people who were aware that there were laws that were not equally applied to all people."
When Harris was seven, her mother and father separated after her father moved to take a professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They subsequently divorced and Gopalan won custody of the girls. Harris explained,
"They didn't fight about money. The only thing they fought about was who got the books."
The family stayed in Berkeley, and Harris had to travel by bus to a white neighborhood to go to school. She and her sister Maya often had to go to the lab where Gopalan worked as a cancer researcher to help clean test tubes.
When they couldn't go to work with their mom, the girls went to a daycare run by Regina Shelton, who often took them to the Twenty Third Avenue Church of God, an African American protestant church in Oakland. Harris' bond with Shelton was so strong that the bible she used during her swearing in as California's Attorney General and Senator was the same one that Shelton carried to church every Sunday. One of Harris' longtime friends, Karen Clopton, told The Washington Post,
"She has always been engaged in African American politics, community struggles, community organizations, and life."
While Harris kept in touch with her father and his family, it would be her mother who played a more significant role in shaping her girls. As a result, Harris and her sister Maya had a rich, multicultural childhood. Harris explained,
"All my friends were Black and we got together and cooked Indian food and painted henna on our hands, and I never felt uncomfortable with my cultural background."
They traveled regularly to both Jamaica and to India to visit family on both sides, helping the future politician develop an appreciation for the world at large.
When Harris was in middle school, her mother, who had experienced both racism and sexism at Berkeley, decided to teach and do research in Canada's McGill University. Harris finished high school in Montreal and returned to the U.S. to go to college, but instead of going to Berkeley, she went to Howard University, a Historically Black University located in Washington, D.C., where she double-majored in economics and political science. From there, she returned to California for law school, passed the bar the second time around, and became a prosecutor.
When The Washington Post asked Harris how her African American upbringing influenced her, she said,
"It's kind of like asking how did eating food shape who I am today. It affects everything about who I am. Growing up as a Black person in America made me aware of certain things that, maybe if you didn't grow up Black in America, you wouldn't be aware of."
But she is Indian, too, and she remembers, even if the media has only recently taken note of that fact. Harris explained that both sides of her carry equal weight, and added,
"We have to stop seeing issues and people through a plate-glass window as though we were one-dimensional. Instead, we have to see that most people exist through a prism and they are a sum of many factors."
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Do you think a politician's childhood contributes to their political priorities?

[@MaestroWenarto]

no

[@joycequillen4080]

Not at all!!

[@miriancugurra9728]

Yes, of course!

[@nouseforaname.1364]

She plagiarized the stroller story from MLK.

[@t.t6191]

No because people change and learn things over the years. Sometimes points of view change especially with age.

[@gthornton3]

And she could be our president ? I hope not

[@babygirl5299]

Could be. Not

[@endeavourist5287]

American politics are unbelievably conservative. As a non-American, it's surprising to see so many people that consider her to be liberal. At best, she would be a centrist in the rest of the developed world.

[@squid4495]

@Scraps G how

[@squid4495]

@Scraps G lol totally

[@hallelujah969]

Let mostly black conservative women speak out against kamala's failures since MSM can't call them racist or sexist.

[@CpYfw]

Thank you my daughters is Learning a lot

[@Karla-cb8tu]

Nope!

[@dawnvierra4063]

Shes Jamacian Indian. Not African American Indian

[@rakeshmakwana923]

India🇮🇳supports Trump✌️

[@MBravo-ki4vl]

Nope. Indian as in from India

[@jdellison3817]

What BULL CRAP...

[@skiddrowe9104]

MAY GOD HEAL OUR LAND........AND ALL PRAISE HIM.....FOR HE'S RETURNING SOON................IN GOD WE TRUST............

[@jdellison3817]

We trust God to punish these people who use his name in lies to advance their leftist beliefs of socialism and communism....

[@denisethrondsen3399]

Disappointed to read the negative comments. She’s extremely smart, rich in culture, has so much experience, I think she would excel at anything! I’m proud of her and her many accomplishments and her ambition.

[@charlesberry4425]

omg. She is a lying FRAUD!!!! SHE IS NOT AFRICAN AMERICAN. She is indian/asian and only 12% black. She never EVER WAS BUSSED IN CALIFORNIA because she went to elementary school, middle school and high school in...wait for it... CANADA!! SHE CALIMS SHE WAS A BLACK KID WHO GREW UP IN RCIST AMERICA... NO SHE DID NOT. SHE GREW UP IN CANADA!!!! SHE IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!!!! On her college application she claimed to be INDIAN/ASIAN. In law school she never claimed to be- AFRICAN AMERICAN... SHE IS A TOTAL AND COMPLETE PHONY.

[@garymclaughin]

That's where Layla went McGill. Happy Mother's Day from Chiang Rai Thailand. Sawadee Khap.🤠

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God bless the USA 🇺🇸

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Im not claiming THIS one 🙅🏾‍♂️🙅🏾‍♂️🙅🏾‍♂️ absolutely NOT

[@Thabeezkneez1350]

She was low key blackfacing

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Anyone here for school

[@tommypike2054]

Dam BLOW- FLY🤮🤮🤮💩💩

[@kevinrichards3288]

Lol

[@Gumgai1]

Nothing new here

[@jayell8253]

Fraud

[@JospehAntoinette]

How's is she a FRAUD Jayell?

[@garymclaughin]

She will be fine, just speak your mind don't get caught up too much in norms of the past. Allot was political theatre most normal people could see through it.😶

[@chrissyheiss1820]

MAGA Trump 2020

[@Freddy-jw1xe]

👏👏👏👍👍👍

[@davgar4241]

Proud her dad is from my country Jamaica

[@satxser]

I was born a poor Black, er, Indian, uh, you fill in the blank.

[@lunafringe10]

oh joe, pls forget all I said abt you in the primaries, it was all BS.

[@PeggyJame]

Kamala Harris she was strong and intelligent and no predators

[@satxser]

She's a joke. LOL

[@newmannewmanz7110]

She did blows and bend her way to the top, maybe even for VP position.

[@sandraborrego9309]

We're you the mattress? STFU

[@jdellison3817]

No mattress under a desk...

[@peggyely3773]

She tells she's Black. But I read about her and her parents and her parents are not black.

[@suga9470]

Our vise president is here ! 😍

[@lunafringe10]

Harris, The OMEN

[@ctucker7002]

Biden and Trump are same. One is just more open as a racist.

[@zoraidabatine1027]

Harris Vice President 2020

[@gijoemolinaro]

Hey list do you think you can take your nose out of that camels back side for at least a minute or are you trapped up there by your own hype?????

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Kjo

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