Quote:Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, to a Tamil Indian mother and a Jamaican father. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a breast cancer scientist who immigrated to the United States from Madras (present-day Chennai) in 1960.[3][4] Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University economics professor who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at University of California, Berkeley.[5][6] Recalling the lives of his grandmothers, Donald Harris wrote that one was related to a plantation and slave owner while the other had unknown ancestry.[7] In a 2019 interview, Kamala Harris said, "'I am black and I am proud of it.'"[8]

Harris's family lived in Berkeley, California, where both of her parents attended graduate school.[9] She was close to her maternal grandfather, P. V. Gopalan, an Indian diplomat.[4][10] As a child, she often visited her extended family in the Besant Nagar neighborhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu.[11] She grew up going to both a black Baptist church and a Hindu temple.[12] She has one younger sister, Maya Harris.[13][14] They both sang in a Baptist choir.[15]

Harris began her elementary education during the second year of Berkeley's public school desegregation busing program, which pioneered the extensive use of busing to bring racial balance to all the city's schools, and, under that policy, took the school bus to an elementary school outside her district.[16][17] Her parents divorced when she was seven, and her mother was granted custody of the children.[9][7] After the divorce, when Harris was 12,[18] her mother moved with the children to Montreal, Québec, Canada, where Shyamala accepted a position doing research at Jewish General Hospital and teaching at McGill University.[19][20]

mapoui post=373014 Wrote:Her parents divorced when she was seven, and her mother was granted custody of the children.After the divorce, when Harris was 12, her mother moved with the children to Montreal, Québec, Canada where Shyamala accepted a position doing research at Jewish Hospital and teaching at McGill

Quote:Another Black Father gone missing ~ **sigh**
non Black mother has to make the chirren successful !
Typical.

mapoui post=373014 Wrote:she is ah real honest to goodness Dougla (Dohgla)..the real article
[color=blue]Kamala Harris was born to a Tamil Indian mother and a Jamaican father.
Her parents divorced when she was seven, and her mother was granted custody of the children.
After the divorce, when Harris was 12] her mother moved with the children to Montreal, Québec, Canada

mapoui post=373014 Wrote:[i][color=blue]After the divorce, when Harris was 12
her mother moved with the children to Montreal, Québec, Canada