Vice President Kamala Harris has frequently cited her upbringing and family as she crisscrosses the nation in an effort to rally support for her newly-formed presidential campaign, including touting her father in a rare mention at the DNC.
“My early memories of our parents together are very joyful ones. A home filled with laughter and music: Aretha, Coltrane and Miles. At the park, my mother would say, ‘Stay close.’ But my father would say, as he smiled, ‘Run, Kamala, run. Don’t be afraid. Don’t let anything stop you.’ From my earliest years, he taught me to be fearless,” Harris said during her acceptance speech during the DNC in Chicago last Thursday.
Harris was born in Oakland, California, in 1964 to Shyamala Gopalan, a biologist who immigrated to the U.S. from India, and Donald Harris, an economist who immigrated from Jamaica.
Harris’ parents divorced when she was 7 years old, with the future vice president spending a lot of her time with her mother and sister in Canada in her youth, where their mother worked as a researcher at the McGill University School of Medicine.
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Donald Harris holding his daughter Kamala in April 1965. (Kamala Harris campaign, via Associated Press)
Following Harris rising to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket and formally accepting the party’s nomination last week, Fox News Digital examined her father’s background and legacy within academia.
Donald J. Harris, who coincidentally shares the same first name as VP Harris’ Republican rival, former President Donald J. Trump, is a retired Stanford University professor of economics, whose econ background is steeped in Marxist theory, which earned him the description from the Economist last month as a “combative Marxist economist.”
“He is a clear writer. There are few compound nouns or sentences that run for paragraphs. Yet he is still a Marxist and his…
