Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris on Wednesday shared a photograph of her mother on Instagram and wrote a note on her mother’s influence during her growing years.
She shared the first set of images from the series, which comprised pictures from her childhood with her mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris and sister Maya Harris.
Admiring her mother Kamala wrote that her mother had migrated to the US from Tamil Nadu in India, while her father, Donald J Harris, moved to the US from Jamaica.
She said that she was born in Oakland where she was raised by her mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris.
Admiring her mother Kamala wrote, “One of the few women of color to have a position as a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley,”
Kamala is the first person of South Asian descent to climb the top post in US politics and she mentioned that her parents came to America in pursuit of a dream for themselves and their two children.
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Remembering her childhood, Kamala wrote, “My mother always used to say, “don’t sit around and complain about things, do something.” I’ve tried to follow that advice every day and live by the example she set.”
She further added that it was because of her that she was raised in a community where they were taught to see a world beyond just “ourselves”. “To be conscious and compassionate about the struggles of all people.”
While the first picture features her as a baby being fed milk by her mother, the second is a collage of two photos of the siblings, and the third features the sisters with their mother holding hands.
When Harris won the US election in November, she gave tribute to her mother who, she said, had come to the US in pursuit of the American dream.