It's throwback Thursday and US Vice-President elect Kamala Harris shared a beautiful note dedicated to her late mother on Instagram. In her note, she wrote about her mother's influence in her life. She shared the note along with three photos from her childhood with her mother and sister.?
Harris is the first woman and south Asian to become the Vice President of the United States. In her post, she wrote that her parents went to the US to pursue the American dream for themselves, for her and her sister, Maya.?
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In the series of photos, the first one shows Ms Harris as a baby being fed milk by her mother. The second image is a collage of two photos from a time when Ms Harris and her sister were kids. The third and last picture is of their mother holding the young sisters' hands while standing on a pavement.?
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Harris' father hails from Jamaica and her mother was from India. She was one of the few women of colour to have a position as a scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, Hariss mentioned in her post on Instagram.?
'She was all of five feet, but if you ever met her you would think she was seven feet tall. It's because of her that I was raised in a community where we were taught to see a world beyond just ourselves. To be conscious and compassionate about the struggles of all people,' Ms Harris wrote about her mother.
'My mother always used to say, "don't sit around and complain about things, do something,"' she added in her post.
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She also said that she has followed her mother's advice every day of her life.?
Harris added that she will share stories of people, places and moments that have influenced her life this week.