California’s Bay Area rallies behind the vice-president and envisions ‘how great’ it would be for the diverse community
Kamala Harris holds her niece Amara as she and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, wave to the crowd at a rally in Oakland, California, in 2019.Kamala Harris holds her niece Amara as she and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, wave to the crowd at a rally in Oakland, California, in 2019.’s Bay Area was enveloped in a quiet calm.
“How great would it be for Oakland if the rest of the country looks to us and says, ‘Wow. That is not just the birthplace of the Black Panthers, not just a place that stood side by side with San Francisco and Berkeley where a lot of the civil rights movement started,’” she said. She’s looking ahead to a future where a presidential library is hosted in the town. “That will be such a positive mark on our city – we are the place where it all began for her.
Harris credits her upbringing, including trips to the Rainbow Sign, a once vibrant African American cultural center in Berkeley that she attended with her mother, Shyamala, and her sister, Maya, for seeding her political ambitions.“Being from a place that’s so diverse it helps shape our ideals and our morals and to accept people for their differences,” said Derreck Johnson, an Oakland resident and close childhood friend of Harris.
“I am overwhelmed with joy – I don’t even know how to describe it,” he said. “I feel she is going to win. I feel she is going to win big.”
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