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. They fell in love. And here I am. (05:27–05:37)
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Asserts that Kamala Harris's mother was involved in the civil rights movement in Berkeley.
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