CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris put her family in the spotlight at her Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Scandal actor Kerry Washington sought the help of Harris’s nieces Amara and Leela on how people can properly pronounce “Kamala” on Thursday, shortly before the vice president is expected to accept the 2024 Democratic nomination.
Amara and Leela, the daughters of Vice-President Kamala Harris’ niece @meena, teach the crowd how to pronounce their auntie’s name. pic.twitter.com/bIk37t5FAr
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The pig-tailed pair explained “Kamala” was pronounced by putting together “comma” and “lah,” leading the United Center arena in a call and response before Washington completed the chant with “for president!”
“First you say comma, like comma in a sentence,” Amara said. “Then you say, ‘La,’ like lalalala,” Leila finished.
Amara and Leela’s mother Meena, the daughter of Harris’s sister Maya, then came onstage, with Harris’s stepdaughter Ella Emhoff with husband Doug and goddaughter Helena Hudlin.
“I grew up in Oakland, California, in a house full of extraordinary women: my mom, my grandma, and my aunty, who showed me the meaning of service,” Meena Harris said. “She guided me. Now she’s guiding my own children. And I know she’ll guide our country forward.”
“Kamala came into my life when I was 14, famously a very easy time for a teenager,” Ella Emhoff added. “She’s never stopped listening to me and she’s not going to stop listening to all of us.”
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