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Code Switch

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Kamala Harris is the vice president-elect, which marks an impressive list of firsts: woman in the White House; Black woman in the White House, Asian American in the White House; etc. Her Indian heritage has gotten much less attention than her Black identity, and in many ways, it has been complicated by her Black identity. On this episode, we look at what Harris's identities can tell us about dual-minority POCs, South Asian political representation in the U.S., and what it all means at the voting booth.

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0:00.0	Folks, the people this nation have spoken.
0:06.4	They've delivered us a clear victory.
0:09.0	Joseph R. Biden, president elect of the United States.
0:12.6	OK, now that that's out of the way,
0:14.1	let's talk about the real star of the show.
0:17.1	And to the American people who make up our beautiful country.
0:22.8	Thank you for turning out in record numbers
0:26.3	to make your voices heard.
0:29.1	That's Kamala Harris.
0:30.2	And I'm Shireen Marisol Miraji.
0:32.7	I'm Jean Tembi.
0:33.7	And this is Code Switch.
0:35.9	From NPR, Kamala Harris, the first woman
0:40.0	and woman of color elected vice president.
0:43.4	She spoke to the country about what this moment means to her
0:46.8	by talking about her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris.
0:51.0	It was always in our hearts.
0:52.6	CHEERING
0:54.4	APPLAUSE
0:56.8	When she came here from India at the age of 19,
1:00.0	she maybe didn't quite imagine this moment.
1:04.0	But she believed so deeply in an America
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