Kamala’s father is Jamaican economist Donald Jasper Harris
Since last January 20 we have for the first time in the history of the United States a woman occupying the vice presidency of the federal government, Kamala Harris.
She was the running mate chosen by President Joseph (Joe) Biden to accompany him on his project.
Through the veins and arteries of that woman, elected to the second most important position of the world’s largest economic and military power, runs Caribbean and Asian blood, no matter how much the media insist on highlighting only her Indian origin, perhaps because Kamala only mentions her beloved mother Shaymala in her speeches.
Indeed, Kamala Harris’s father is Dr. Donald Jasper Harris, an economist known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics, emeritus professor at Stanford University, United States, is a citizen of Jamaica, the land of “reggae ”, Third of the four Greater Antilles in order of their territorial extension. Dr. Harris now lives in Jamaica.
His mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, who died in 2009, was an Indian-born civil rights activist and cancer researcher. Her research at the Cancer Research Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, led to advances in the understanding of breast cancer hormones.
The couple met in the 1960s. They both immigrated to the United States to study for a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, he in economics and she in nutrition and endocrinology. They had two daughters, Kamala and Maya. They divorced when Kamala was just seven years old.
Born in Okland, California, the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, studied law, economics and political science at Howard University and the University of California, Berkeley. She was a federal prosecutor in California until she became the second black federal senator in the Union.
So Kamala is not only the first woman to hold the second highest office in the United States Government, but the first person of Caribbean origin to access that position. In it they aspire to find immigrants, those who left their native lands to go in search of the “American dream, as well as the minorities and women of that great country, a true ally.
Congratulations, Kamala, pride of the insular Caribbean.
–
