The Truths We Hold
Book
Review by Kam Williams
The
Truths We Hold
An
American Journey
by
Kamala Harris
Penguin
Press
Hardcover,
$30.
336
pages
ISBN:
978-0-525-56071-5
“We've
seen... [the Trump] administration align itself with white
supremacists at home and cozy up to dictators abroad; rip babies
from their mothers' arms in grotesque violation of their human
rights; give corporations and the wealthy huge tax cuts; derail our
fight against climate change; sabotage health care and imperil a
woman's right to control her own body; all while lashing out at...
the very idea of a free and independent press...
Americans
know we're better than this... But we're going to have to fight for
it... This book grows out of that call to action, and out of my
belief that our fight must begin and end with speaking [the]
truth... that racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and
anti-Semitism are real in this country, and we need to confront
those forces.”
Excerpted
from the Preface (pages xiv-xv)
Kamala
Harris has officially thrown her hat in the ring for the 2020
Democratic presidential nomination, launching her campaign with a
spirited rally in her hometown of Oakland attended by over 20,000
enthusiastic supporters. The first term senator from California's bid
is reminiscent of Barack Obama's in that she's racially mixed and has
conveniently published a very timely autobiography which also lays
out her political platform.
In
it, we learn that Kamala's father, Donald, was from Jamaica and
taught economics at Stanford, and her mother, Shyamala, a cancer
researcher, was born in India. The book is very engaging and reads
like she actually wrote it herself, unlike most celebrity bios
nowadays.
She
reflects fondly on a culturally rich childhood growing up in the Bay
Area until the age of 12 when her mother took a job in
French-speaking Montreal. In high school, Kamala developed an
interest in becoming an attorney, and decided to attend Howard
University (where she would join the debate team and pledge AKA
sorority) because it was the alma mater of her hero, Thurgood
Marshall.
After
graduation, she returned to Oakland to study law at UC Hastings
before kickstarting her legal career. She enjoyed a meteoric rise
from assistant prosecutor to San Francisco District Attorney To
California Attorney General to U.S. Senator.
Because
she spent so much time representing the state in criminal cases,
Kamala positions herself here as a political progressive, ostensibly
to convince skeptics of the criticisms she now levels at the justice
system as racist. Overall, I'd say this opus serves as a persuasive
introduction to a charismatic candidate likely to be in the
presidential race for the long haul.
To order a copy of The The Truths We Hold, visit: https://www.amazon.com/Truths-We-Hold-American-Journey/dp/0525560718/ref=sr_1_1_twi_har_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1548684708&sr=1-1&keywords=kamala+harris+the+truths+we+hold
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