Kamala Harris, daughter of a Jamaican immigrant, will meet with island's prime minister
Vice President Kamala Harris — whose father emigrated from Jamaica — met Wednesday with the island nation’s prime minister, Andrew Holness, at the White House, marking another historic moment for the first Black and South Asian vice president.Harris, in brief remarks during a photo opportunity with reporters, noted her Jamaican descent and trips to the island in her childhood as she welcomed Holness.
Harris does not mention Jamaica often in public but visited relatives there as a child. She wrote in her memoir that her late mother, who was born in India, raised her and her sister, Maya, as “black girls,” with the understanding that they would be viewed that way in the U.S. Though Holness’ visit was the first by a Jamaican leader to the White House in nearly three decades, he and other Caribbean leadersat his residence in Palm Beach, Fla. Then-President Obama visited the country in 2015, and Trump’s secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, went there in 2020.
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