INSPIRATION
Kamala + Momala = VP?
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People who know her best, admit there are two sides to Kamala Harris, the first African-American, Asian-American woman to be nominated as vice president for a major political party. The first side of Kamala Harris is the one that many people already know: the hard-driving lawyer, Senator from California, and former California Attorney General. Then there’s the other side that we’re learning so much about as she campaigns with Joe Biden: Momala, the auntie, stepmother, sister, wife, and friend who collects Chuck Taylors and loves to laugh. Since 2020 feels like it’s lasted for years and years, it can be surprising to be reminded that Ms. Harris has only been in the Senate since 2016. She’s been incredibly high-profile during 10
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written by Dana L Costa
that time: including her questioning of former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in 2017 and then-SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. Then, in 2019, she announced her own bid for the Democratic nomination for President. The date of her announcement that year—January 28—was not chosen at random; it was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and was an obvious nod to the civil rights movement. The path to Ms. Harris’ glass ceiling shattering VP nomination has celebrated her bi-racial heritage. Born in Oakland, CA in 1964 to a Jamaican father, Donald Harris, and Indian mother, Shyamala Gopalan, Ms. Harris grew up in a lower-middle-class, predominantly black neighborhood. For Ms. Harris, it was a normal childhood despite her parents’ divorce when she was 7 years old. She and her younger sis-
