But if we, if we start at the beginning, what is the context that shapes someone to become such an anomaly in their professional career? My parents and the community that raised me. My mother arrived from India in the United States at the age of 19 by herself. My mother, naturally, at that young age Became aligned with the civil rights movement in Berkeley. In Oakland, California, met my father, who had been a national scholar in Jamaica. (05:21–05:27)
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Asserts that Kamala Harris's mother immigrated to the United States from India at age 19.
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