{"id":7060,"date":"2020-08-28T05:32:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T10:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=7060"},"modified":"2020-08-28T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:51:08","slug":"who-were-kamala-harriss-parents-founders-of-aaa-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/who-were-kamala-harriss-parents-founders-of-aaa-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Were Kamala Harris&#8217;s Parents! Founders Of AAA! &#8211; YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Must See - Who Were Kamala Harris&#039;s Parents! Founders Of AAA!\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wWGOVqWMEnw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"top-row\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\">\n<div id=\"upload-info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer\">\n<div id=\"container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\">\n<div id=\"text-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\"><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC46IzKnhwU7d4xXjFUPVXgQ\">World News Report Today<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"style-scope ytd-expander\">\n<div id=\"description\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><strong><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">World News Report Today August 27th, 2020! Radical parents Her family\u2019s political legacy, though, stretches further back, to India, where her grandfather was active in the fight to gain independence from British colonial rule and her grandmother walked the streets with a bullhorn, telling poor women how to access birth control. \u201cBoth of my grandparents impressed upon me their conviction that we each have the capacity and the responsibility to work for a better and more just society,\u201d Harris writes in her 2009 book, Smart on Crime.[1] \u201cI was born,\u201d Kamala Harris declares, \u201cas a daughter of the civil rights movement.\u201d The year was 1964. Donald Harris, Kamala\u2019s father, had come from Jamaica to pursue a doctorate in economics at the University of California, Berkeley; Shyamala Gopalan, her mother, had come from India to do doctoral work in endocrinology. They met in one of the many small activist study groups then forming off campus, and they kept protesting as Berkeley became ground zero for pretty much every left-wing movement of the 1960s and 1970s. \u201cMy sister, Maya, and I, we joke that we grew up surrounded by a bunch of adults who spent full time marching and shouting for this thing called \u2018justice,\u2019\u201d Harris said Berkeley Despite its revolutionary reputation, Berkeley wasn\u2019t always a radical place. In the 1950s, the city was ruled by Republicans; its population was only 12 percent black. Over the next decade, that changed dramatically because of people like Harris\u2019s parents. It was also where she would meet her husband. Unlike Shyamala, Donald Harris didn\u2019t come from a political background. But he too had experienced colonial oppression firsthand \u2014 Donald was a young man when Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1962 \u2014 and in his academic work he explored how Marxist economics could both explain and revive struggling Third World economies.[2] Afro-American Association At the start of the 1960s, however, Donald Harris\u2019s search for \u201calternative approaches\u201d would bear more fruit off campus than on, where fewer than a hundred of Berkeley\u2019s 20,000 students were black. United by a sense of isolation and displacement, a dozen of them began to gather at the Harmon Street house of Mary Lewis, an undergraduate from Detroit. Shyamala and Donald soon joined the group; Lewis eventually became Shyamala\u2019s \u201cclosest confidante\u201d and Kamala\u2019s godmother, according to \u201cThe Truths We Hold.\u201d \u201cI was awed by them,\u201d says early member Aubrey LaBrie, whom Kamala eventually came to know as \u201cUncle Aubrey.\u201d (Lewis was \u201cAunt Mary.\u201d) \u201cThey were intimidatingly smart. They had a determined kind of posture about them.\u201d Every Sunday, Lewis would host student intellectuals as they \u201csocialized and talked politics incessantly,\u201d writes Donna Jean Murch in \u201cLiving for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California.\u201d \u201cFidel Castro and Che Guevara were the heroes of some of us,\u201d Labrie recalls. \u201cWe would talk about Black Muslims, the liberation movements going on in Africa, everything.\u201d They would also read. As both Murch and Harris note in their books, the initial syllabus was full of \u201cclassic black history texts\u201d such as W.E.B. Du Bois\u2019s \u201cThe Souls of Black Folk,\u201d Carter G. Woodson\u2019s \u201cThe Miseducation of the Negro\u201d and Ralph Ellison\u2019s \u201cInvisible Man.\u201d But it was the more contentious readings \u2014 the ones Harris doesn\u2019t mention \u2014 that proved most influential: E. David Cronon\u2019s \u201cBlack Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey,\u201d which celebrated Garvey\u2019s pioneering emphasis on racial pride and self-determination; Melville J. Herskovits\u2019s \u201cThe Myth of the Negro Past,\u201d which championed pan-Africanism in culture and religion; E. Franklin Frazier\u2019s \u201cBlack Bourgeoisie,\u201d which criticized a compliant black middle class. As they discussed and debated these books, Murch writes, the study group gradually developed \u201cits own antiassimilationist ideology\u201d: \u201ca reinvigorated, anticolonial Black nationalism,\u201d more Malcolm X than Martin Luther King, Jr. By 1963, the organization, now called the Afro-American Association, had quadrupled in size; guest speakers included Fannie Lou Hamer, LeRoi Jones and Maya Angelou. The AAA\u2019s de facto leader, a Berkeley law student named Donald Warden, would go on to mentor Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, two young AAA members from Oakland; Newton and Seale would, in turn, co-found the Black Panther Party in 1966. 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