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The life of Kamala Harris
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3/25/2025
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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So that's what this election is about. It's about saying we know we matter, we
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know the powers with the people, yes we have not achieved the ideals of our
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country yet we all know that too, but we know that if we stop fighting we will
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never get there and so we fight. That is the strength of who we are as a nation.
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How do I describe myself? I describe myself as a proud American.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley back in the
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civil rights movement and you know I joke, me and my sister joke, we grew up
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surrounded by a bunch of adults who spent full-time marching and shouting.
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When I was five my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. Like
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so many mothers she worked around the clock to make it work, packing lunches
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before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed, helping us with homework
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at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir practice. She made it
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look easy though it never was.
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There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to
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integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day and that
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little girl was me.
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I had this one leotard long sleeves and then we did we sewed fringe down the
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bottom of the arm, the sleeve.
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Back in the day I go down to the National Mall to protest the United
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States investment in apartheid South Africa and I interned in the United
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States Senate. I chaired the Economic Society, I was on the Howard debate team
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and I pledged my dear sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha.
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In my career the conventional wisdom was that people were either soft on
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crime or tough on crime but I knew we should be smart on crime.
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Our justice system needs drastic repair. Early intervention leaves room in our
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prisons for the violent criminals who should be there. I did it in San
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Francisco, as Attorney General I can do it across California.
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There is work that we have done there, there's work that we have done around
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racial profiling and in particular implicit bias and racial bias in the
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criminal justice system and in particular in law enforcement that needs
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to be addressed. So there's a lot of work that we have done.
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That's not my question. I will repeat. Excuse me, I'm asking the
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questions. Hold ourselves to. Can you please answer the question. Can you think of any
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laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male body?
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I'm not thinking of any right now Senator.
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The future of our country depends on you and millions of others lifting our
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voices to fight for our American values. That's why I'm running for President of
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the United States. On the issue of, and in the conversation with Vice President
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Biden, it was through the lens of that, which is that these segregationists
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pushed policies and really made, built their careers and reputations off of
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policies that were about segregation of the races in our country and it had real
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consequences.
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Bad cops are bad for good cops. We need reform of our policing in America and
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our criminal justice system, which is why Joe and I will immediately ban choke
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holes and carotid holes. George Floyd would be alive today if we did that.
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We will require a national registry for police officers who break the law.
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We know that Donald Trump was informed back on January 28th about the
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seriousness of this. Informed that it is five times more deadly than the flu.
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Informed that it can hurt people of every age. Informed that it was airborne
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and highly contagious. And what did he do with that information? He sat on it. He
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covered it up. He suggested it's a hoax.
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Years from now, this moment will have passed and our children and our
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grandchildren will look in our eyes and they're going to ask us, where were you
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when the stakes were so high? They will ask us, what was it like? And we will tell
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them. We will tell them not just how we felt, we will tell them what we did.
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