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Kamala: "to help people understand they should not make assumptions about who black people are"
Amos Jackson III @amosjacksonIII 5m5 minutes agoI reference often my days at Howard to help people understand they should not make assumptions about who black people are,
A political awakening: How Howard University shaped @KamalaHarris identity - Los Angeles Times
____The war on drugs had erupted, apartheid was raging, Jesse Jackson would soon make the campus a staging ground for his inaugural presidential bid. Running for student office in 1982 at Howard University the school that nurtured Thurgood Marshall, Toni Morrison and Stokely Carmichael was no joke.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has been known to break the ice with voters by proclaiming the freshman-year campaign in which she won a seat on the Liberal Arts Student Council her toughest political race. Those who were at the university with her are not so sure she is kidding.
It was at Howard that the senators political identity began to take shape. Thirty-three years after she graduated in 1986, the university in the nations capital, one of the countrys most prominent historically black institutions, also serves as a touchstone in a campaign in which political opponents have questioned the authenticity of her black identity.
I reference often my days at Howard to help people understand they should not make assumptions about who black people are, Harris said in a recent interview.
read more: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-kamala-harris-howard-university-20190319-story.html
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Kamala Harris, right, protests South African apartheid with classmate Gwen Whitfield on the National Mall in November 1982. (Photo courtesy of Kamala Harris)
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Kamala: "to help people understand they should not make assumptions about who black people are" (Original Post)
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Mar 2019
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(85,977 posts)1. husband weighs in
Douglas Emhoff @douglasemhoff
Great article. As always, I have a picture....At @KamalaHarriss beloved @HowardUniv right after the 2020 announcement...
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Great article. As always, I have a picture....At @KamalaHarriss beloved @HowardUniv right after the 2020 announcement...
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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
oasis
(49,338 posts)2. Kamala Harris is as tough and smart as they come. Trump should
fear her more than any other Democrat in the running. Including Biden.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Maru Kitteh
(28,323 posts)4. Could not agree more.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden