29/10/2024
Today I bring to you Kamala Harris the ever first African American and first asian American to hold the office of vice president in the US. She was born in Oakland, California on 20th October 1964 to shyamala Gopalan a Tamil with Indian descent as her mother and Donald Harris a Jamaican economist and professor as her father.
The tow met in 1962 in US after having gone to study from the University of California however they divorced when she was just 7 years old in 1971 after having two daughters of Kamala and Maya Harris. Following their divorce, Kamala Harris spent most of her life with her mother in a multicultural house hold with hindu and christian influence. She attended high school in Montreal and college in California before proceeding to Howard university and California's Hastings college of law from where she graduated in law thus commencing her career in the office of the district attorney in Alameda county till she became the district attorney of San Francisco in 2003 and attorney general of California in 2010.
Later in 201, she became a senator from California UpTo 2021 from where she exhibited her extra ordinary abilities in enforcing several reforms in the US. This compelled president joe Biden a democratic presidential nominee in the 2020 elections to choose her as his run mate though the decision faced several resentment because she was a black American. After winning elections in November 2020, Kamala Harris became the vice president of the US in Jan 2021 hence becoming the first woman, first black American and first asian American to hold this office. She is currently married to Douglas emhoff an American attorney august 2014. Unfortunately, she has no biological children at her age of 60. But rather has two step children from her husband's previous marriage.
It holds water to say that her political career seems not to end their coz Harris is among de contestants of de US 60th elections to be held on Tuesday 5th November 2024. Follow, share, liike
