She's Proud To Be A Nigger

[Douglas Mercer]

Harris and Gopalan met at the University of California, Berkeley, where they were both studying for their doctorates. According to their daughter’s autobiography, The Truths We Hold, Donald and Shyamala “met and fell in love at Berkeley while participating in the civil rights movement.” Speaking about her parents, Kamala said in an Instagram post: “They laid the path for me, as only the second Black woman ever elected to the United States Senate.”