Kamala Harris' Father Says Family Descended from a Jamaican Slave Owner. Early life and education. Advertisement - story continues … On her U.S. Senate website , Harris states, “ Growing up in Oakland, Kamala had a stroller-eye view of the Civil Rights movement. She was from the Besant Nagar neighborhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Born and raised in Jamaica, her father, Donald Harris, was at the university earning a Ph.D. in economics. Kamala Harris’ Father Blasts Her Marijuana Story as a ‘Travesty’ WOAH. Kamala Harris can only be who she was born into this world as, born on American soil to two worthy people that had immigrated to the United States, her father being of … Her father is Jamaican, of African-Jamaican descent, and was born in Saint Anne’s Bay, Kingston. Share . Her mother is an emigrant from Chennai, India, of Tamil Indian descent. Updated Feb. 21, 2019 4:47AM ET / Published Feb. 20, 2019 8:40PM ET Brian Snyder/Reuters.
After 2020 contender Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) jokingly tied her previous marijuana use to her Jamaican roots, her father released a statement Wednesday denouncing his daughter's remarks. The Democrats have been up in arms about an NBC News report that detailed how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s great-great-grandfathers owned slaves in Alabama in the 1800s. Kamala’s parents had recently divorced, an issue Donald Harris bitterly recalled in “Reflections of a Jamaican Father” published at Jamaica Global Online on January 13, 2019. The father of Kamala Harris detailed how their ancestors owned slaves, an inconvenient part of her history as she has spent much of her campaign focusing on race politics. Kamala Harris can only be who she was born into this world as, born on American soil to two worthy people that had immigrated to the United States, her father being of African descent, her mother being of Tamil descent. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a Tamil Indian breast-cancer scientist who immigrated from India in 1960 to pursue a doctorate in endocrinology at UC Berkeley. In her new book, "The Truths We Hold: An American Journey," Kamala is the daughter of Shyamala (Gopalan), a cancer researcher, breast cancer specialist, and civil rights activist, and Donald Jasper Harris, an economics professor at Stanford University. Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California. Share Tweet Email Comments. By Megan Fox Feb 22, 2019 11:53 AM EST . Tweet .
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