Vice President Kamala Harris’s Jamaican heritage could make all the difference in whether she wins or loses the pivotal battleground state of Georgia in just four days.
Harris’s mother hails from India but her father was born in Jamaica in 1938. Donald J. Harris is a retired Stanford economics professor who immigrated to the United States in the 1960s to get his Ph.D. at the University of California-Berkeley.
“To this day, I continue to retain the deep social awareness and strong sense of identity which that grassroots Jamaican philosophy fed in me,” he wrote in a 2018 essay . “As a father, I naturally sought to develop the same sensibility in my two daughters.”…