The life of Kamala Harris

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First woman vice president. First Black vice president. First South Asian vice president.  This is the story of Kamala Harris.

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00:00But while I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last.

00:25How do I describe myself? I describe myself as a proud American.

00:30I am a proud American.

00:33I am a proud American.

00:36I am a proud American.

00:38My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley, back in the civil rights movement.

00:43And, you know, I joke, me and my sister joke, we grew up surrounded by a bunch of adults who spent full time marching and shouting.

00:50I am a proud American.

00:52I am a proud American.

00:54I am a proud American.

00:56I am a proud American.

00:59Our mother was the kind of parent who, if you ever came home complaining about something,

01:05the first thing she'd do is look at you and say, so what are you going to do about it?

01:12So I decided to run for President of the United States.

01:29There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools,

01:36and she was bused to school every day.

01:39And that little girl was me.

01:42I had this one leotard, long sleeves, and then we sewed fringe down the bottom of the arm, the sleeve.

01:50I had this one leotard, long sleeves, and then we sewed fringe down the bottom of the arm, the sleeve.

02:05Back in the day, I'd go down to the National Mall to protest the United States investment

02:22in apartheid South Africa.

02:25And I interned in the United States Senate.

02:29I chaired the Economic Society.

02:31I was on the Howard debate team.

02:33And I pledged my dear sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha.

03:03In my career, the conventional wisdom was that people were either soft on crime or tough

03:10on crime.

03:11But I knew we should be smart on crime.

03:33Our justice system needs drastic repair.

03:39Early intervention leaves room in our prisons for the violent criminals who should be there.

03:43I did it in San Francisco.

03:45As Attorney General, I can do it across California.

04:03There is work that we have done there.

04:19There's work that we have done around racial profiling and, in particular, implicit bias

04:23and racial bias in the criminal justice system and, in particular, in law enforcement that

04:27needs to be addressed.

04:44That's not my question.

04:45Not my question.

04:46I will repeat.

04:47Excuse me.

04:48I'm asking the questions.

04:49Hold ourselves to.

04:50Can you please answer the question?

04:52Can you think of any laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male

04:57body?

05:00I'm not thinking of any right now, Senator.

05:22The future of our country depends on you and millions of others lifting our voices

05:33to fight for our American values.

05:37That's why I'm running for President of the United States.

05:52On the issue of, and in the conversation with Vice President Biden, it was through

06:02the lens of that, which is that these segregationists pushed policies and really built their careers

06:11and reputations off of policies that were about segregation of the races in our country.

06:17And it had real consequence.

06:19The policy perspective that was opposed to busing had real consequence.

06:24I was that little girl and there are many others around the country who were those little

06:30girls and boys who were bused.

06:49It should not require a maiming or torture in order for us to recognize a lynching when

07:09we see it and recognize it by federal law and call it what it is, which is that it is

07:14a crime that should be punishable with accountability and consequence.

07:21I, Kamala Davy Harris, solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution

07:47of the United States.

07:48That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

07:52Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

07:53Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

07:54I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter.

07:55The duties of the office upon which I am about to enter.

07:56So help me God.

07:57So help me God.

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