The life of Kamala Harris

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She's made history as the first Black woman and the first Asian American elected vice president of the United States.  This is the story of Kamala Harris.

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00:00So that's what this election is about. It's about saying we know we matter, we

00:06know the powers with the people, yes we have not achieved the ideals of our

00:10country yet we all know that too, but we know that if we stop fighting we will

00:17never get there and so we fight. That is the strength of who we are as a nation.

00:30How do I describe myself? I describe myself as a proud American.

00:53My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley back in the

00:59civil rights movement and you know I joke, me and my sister joke, we grew up

01:03surrounded by a bunch of adults who spent full-time marching and shouting.

01:18When I was five my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. Like

01:24so many mothers she worked around the clock to make it work, packing lunches

01:30before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed, helping us with homework

01:35at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir practice. She made it

01:40look easy though it never was.

01:55There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to

02:02integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day and that

02:07little girl was me.

02:10I had this one leotard long sleeves and then we did we sewed fringe down the

02:26bottom of the arm, the sleeve.

02:40Back in the day I go down to the National Mall to protest the United

02:46States investment in apartheid South Africa and I interned in the United

02:52States Senate. I chaired the Economic Society, I was on the Howard debate team

02:58and I pledged my dear sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha.

03:10In my career the conventional wisdom was that people were either soft on

03:34crime or tough on crime but I knew we should be smart on crime.

03:40Our justice system needs drastic repair. Early intervention leaves room in our

04:06prisons for the violent criminals who should be there. I did it in San

04:10Francisco, as Attorney General I can do it across California.

04:40There is work that we have done there, there's work that we have done around

04:46racial profiling and in particular implicit bias and racial bias in the

04:50criminal justice system and in particular in law enforcement that needs

04:53to be addressed. So there's a lot of work that we have done.

05:11That's not my question. I will repeat. Excuse me, I'm asking the

05:17questions. Hold ourselves to. Can you please answer the question. Can you think of any

05:20laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male body?

05:27I'm not thinking of any right now Senator.

05:40The future of our country depends on you and millions of others lifting our

06:01voices to fight for our American values. That's why I'm running for President of

06:07the United States. On the issue of, and in the conversation with Vice President

06:21Biden, it was through the lens of that, which is that these segregationists

06:29pushed policies and really made, built their careers and reputations off of

06:33policies that were about segregation of the races in our country and it had real

06:38consequences.

07:03Bad cops are bad for good cops. We need reform of our policing in America and

07:15our criminal justice system, which is why Joe and I will immediately ban choke

07:19holes and carotid holes. George Floyd would be alive today if we did that.

07:23We will require a national registry for police officers who break the law.

07:33We know that Donald Trump was informed back on January 28th about the

07:57seriousness of this. Informed that it is five times more deadly than the flu.

08:02Informed that it can hurt people of every age. Informed that it was airborne

08:07and highly contagious. And what did he do with that information? He sat on it. He

08:15covered it up. He suggested it's a hoax.

08:19Years from now, this moment will have passed and our children and our

08:36grandchildren will look in our eyes and they're going to ask us, where were you

08:43when the stakes were so high? They will ask us, what was it like? And we will tell

08:51them. We will tell them not just how we felt, we will tell them what we did.

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