VP Kamala Harris 2015 Interview: "I grew up going to a black Baptist Church and a Hindu temple"

[kpete]

The daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, Harris, 50, rarely talks publicly about her personal experience of race in America. But a long conversation with her on a recent visit to the Berkeley neighborhood where she grew up illustrated the role of race in shaping her politics.

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“I grew up going to a black Baptist Church and a Hindu temple,” Harris recalled as she sipped an iced soy latte at a Berkeley coffee house.

On weekends, the girls would visit their father in Palo Alto, where he was an economics professor at Stanford University.

“The neighbors’ kids were not allowed to play with us because we were black,” Harris said. “We’d say, ‘Why can’t we play together?’ ‘My parents — we can’t play with you.’ In Palo Alto. The home of Google.”

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https://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-ca-harris-senate-20150930-story.html

[Mosby]

1. She should probably talk about her faith a bit more.

I grew up going to a black Baptist Church and a Hindu temple,” Harris recalled as she sipped an iced soy latte at a Berkeley coffee house.

That's not a statement that's going to resonate with middle America.

[Zoomie1986]

2. Leave the religion out of it

It's as divisive as it is irrelevant and annoying.

[Brainstormy]

3. amen. n/t

[Mosby]

4. Every American President has been a Christian

Just saying.