Recall when Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, during the 2024 election campaign argued Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, was black.
But why would a respected man like Donald Trump care about Kamala Harris’s race anyway?
And what is that supposed to mean? Will she be disqualified if she’s black? Is Donald Trump truly as racist as people have accused him? Perhaps he was a racist! Never mind Trump. What’s Kamala Harris’s actual race?
Here in this video, Donald Trump Trump’s skepticism about Kamala Harrris race answered.
Mrs. Kamala Harrish Kamala Devi Harris, born on October 20, 1964 (age 60) in Oakland, California, U.S., was the first child of a Jamaican father, Prof. Donald Jasper Harris, OM (born August 23, 1938), and an Indian mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan (December 7, 1938–FFebruary 11, 2009), who was from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Kamala’s father, Prof. Donald J. Harris, was a professor emeritus at Stanford University, known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics, and Kamala’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, an institution.
Kamala’s sister, Maya Lakshmi Harris, born January 30, 1967 (age 57), is a lawyer and MSNBC political analyst; her brother-in-law, Tony West, is the general counsel of Uber and a former United States Department of Justice senior official. Her niece, Meena, is the founder of the Phenomenal Women Action Campaign and former head of strategy and leadership at Uber.
Kamala’s parents met at the University of California, Berkeley; they married in 1963 and got divorced in 1971. Kamala was surrounded by an erudite family.
The Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, was born and bred in the USA. She is the first of two sisters, Maya Lakshmi Harris, born January 30, 1967 (age 57) to Prof. Donald J. Harrris.
Harris graduated from Westmount High School in 1981. Harris attended Vanier College in Montreal in 1981–82 and then Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C. She graduated in 1986 with a degree in political science and economics. Harris then attended the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she served as president of its chapter of the Black Law Students Association. She graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1989.
Mr. Harris political career started In the 2010 general election, Harris defeated Republican Los Angeles County district attorney Steve Cooley and became attorney general. She was elected Democratic Mayor from 2011 to 2016. On February 27, 2016, Harris won 78% of the California Democratic Party vote at the party convention; she was the first woman, the first African American, and the first South Asian American to hold the office of Attorney General in the state’s history. On June 7, 2016, Harris defeated Sanchez with over 60% of the vote in the senatorial election, carrying all but four California counties.
Kamala Harris had been considered a top contender and potential front-runner for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. Harris withdrew from the 2020 presidential election, citing insufficient funds. In March 2020, she endorsed Joe Biden for president.
After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, Harris assumed office as vice president on January 20, 2021. She is the United States’ first female vice president, the highest-ranking female elected official in U.S. history, and the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president. She is also the second person of color to hold the post, preceded by Charles Curtis, a Native American and member of the Kaw Nation who served under Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933. Harris is the third person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach one of the highest offices in the executive branch, after Curtis and President Barack Obama.
She was appointed the Democratic Vice President from 2020 to 2024. On July 21, 2024, incumbent president and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden suspended his campaign for reelection in 2024 and endorsed Kamala Harris for president. She became a Democratic presidential candidate to face Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the US presidential election that will take place on November 5, 2024.
Mr. Kamala Harris, until she was 49, hadn’t been married nor had biological children. Harris met her future husband, attorney Doug Emhoff, through a mutual friend who set them up on a blind date in 2013. Emhoff, who was born into a Jewish family, was an entertainment lawyer who became partner-in-charge at Venable LLP’s Los Angeles office. Harris and Emhoff married on August 22, 2014, in Santa Barbara, California. Harris is stepmother to Emhoff’s two children, Cole and Ella, from his previous marriage to the film producer Kerstin Emhoff. As of August 2019, Harris and her husband had an estimated net worth of $6 million.
Harris is a Baptist, holding membership in the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, a congregation of the American Baptist Churches USA. She is a member of The Links, an invitation-only social and service organization of prominent black American women.
Kamala Harris was nicknamed URSALA, a famous cartoon antagonist from The Little Mermaid, due to her resemblance, especially in moments when she’s happy.
Now, you knew what race Kamala Harris is. She’s of mixed race; her father is of black Jamaican origin, and her mother is of brown South Asian, Tamiladu, Indian origin.
