Kamala’s Complicated Relationship With the South Asian Community

Some are proud. Some are not. Here’s how identity politics play out.

Kiran Misra
ZORA
Published in
9 min readAug 21, 2020

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris sits and listen to Joe Biden’s remarks at the Alexis Dupont High School.
Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The day after Kamala Harris was named Joe Biden’s pick as his running mate in the 2020 election, Ankit Jain of Washington, D.C., awoke to an email from his South Asian American family members titled, “Fwd: Kamala Harris — Indian Heritage.” A…

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