The Diverse Roots of Presidential Candidate - Kamala Harris

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Honoring the Dream

Since his assassination on 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr has been sanitised and sanctified; coopted and embraced by the American establishment as a bland, unthreatening saint of racial equality.

The Diverse Roots of Presidential Candidate - Kamala Harris -

nia's Hastings College of the Law,

she embarked on a rise through

the

California

legal

system,

emerging

as

state

attorney

general

in

2010.

Following

the November

2016

elections,

Harris became

just

the

second

African-American woman and the

first South Asian American to win

a seat in the U.S. Senate.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019, she declared her candidacy for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

However at the time, he was a radical dissenter who challenged the political, economic and military status quo at least as much as African American militants like Huey Newton of the Black Panthers and Malcolm X of the Nation of Islam. Hence the FBI’s obsessive, relentless attempts to discredit King and those around him, including smears that he was a communist, traitor, adulterer and pervert.

Now, many people think of King solely as a black rights champion. But he was much more than that. He opposed the US war in Vietnam, supported striking workers and demanded economic justice for poor Americans, black and white.

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Kamala

Harris

has

announced

her

candidacy

for

the

2020

presidential

race.

Former

California

Attorney

General

Kamala Harris became the second

African-American woman and the

first South Asian American to earn

election to the U.S. Senate. Will she

be the first to the Presidency?

Who Is Kamala Harris? Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California. After attending Howard University and the University of Califor-

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