The Education of Kamala Harris | 2
Kamala: Next in Line
Wondery | MSNBC
4.2 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
From the election campaign that brought her head-to-head with her toughest opponent to the school debates where she honed her skills, how did Kamala Harris’ time at university prepare her for her run for Vice President?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Kamala, next in line, |
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| 0:15.0 | On a tree-lined street in West Berkeley, |
| 0:17.0 | Carol Porter waited for the bus to school. |
| 0:20.0 | You know, I got some new school clothes and I got special ribbons for my hair. |
| 0:25.0 | I was just excited to go to school. |
| 0:28.0 | And I really enjoyed being on the bus because I was able to talk with my friends on the way to school. |
| 0:34.0 | Carol was in first grade and her school was all the way across town. |
| 0:38.0 | It was a yellow school bus with a little green duck on it, |
| 0:42.0 | so we could remember which bus to get on. |
| 0:44.0 | On this particular day, she'll catch her bus and make a friend. |
| 0:48.0 | I met Kamala in the bus line. |
| 0:50.0 | Kamala Harris lived with her mom around the corner from Carol. |
| 0:53.0 | Her mom's name was Shyamala. |
| 0:55.0 | Shyamala was a working single mother who was very involved and engaged in her kids' life, |
| 1:03.0 | and also with her kids' friends. |
| 1:05.0 | I mean, she was a very warm, nice person, but she was also very strict and structured when she needed to be. |
| 1:15.0 | And she didn't take any business from anybody. |
| 1:18.0 | And she was a force to be reckoned with. |
| 1:23.0 | From then on, Kamala and Carol took the bus together. |
| 1:27.0 | And we took the bus to school from 1970 to 1973 to 1000 Oak School, |
| 1:35.0 | which was about 40 minutes from our house. |
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