How Meena Harris, Niece Of US VPÂ Kamala Harris Who Is Opposing Indian Farm Laws, Is Becoming A Problem For White House
by Swarajya Staff - Feb 4, 2021 09:09 AM
US Vice President Kamala Harris and niece Meena Harris.
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Meena Harris, US Vise President Kamala Harrisâ niece, is quickly becoming an optics issue for the Biden White House.
On 3 February, two days after pop-star Rihanna tweeted against Indiaâs farm reforms, US Vice President Kamala Harrisâ niece Meena Harris jumped on the bandwagon to oppose the new farm laws passed in September 2020.
In a tweet amplifying disinformation, Meena Harris said she was âoutragedâ by âparamilitary violence against farmer protestersâ in New Delhi when in fact it was the protesters who had unleashed violence in Delhi, attacking security personnel with swords, stabbing cops and trying to run them over with their tractors.
January 28, 2021
You met on short notice with a group of business leaders three times in the wake of the presidential election. What prompted that first meeting?
As you know, we had pioneered this space of CEO conferences, but we always thought we needed physical space to do it, to build that degree of trust and candor noncommercial, off the record. I wasn’t sure that it would translate to Zoom.
When we did a regular CEO Summit in June, and then one in September, where we warned them they’re on the record, they were extraordinarily candid, even so much so that with Vice President Biden, now President Biden, there, we got them to pivot from the topic we planned to talk about, which was the impact of the pandemic on their businesses, to talk about racial injustice issues in response to the George Floyd murder immediately preceding the meeting.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan 26, 2021) – A portrait series by Lexington artists Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova titled, “56 Lexington Women of Color: In Honor of VP Kamala Harris,” features a number of University of Kentucky faculty and staff members. The series serves as a tribute to Kamala Harris, the first woman of color to be elected to the office of vice president.
“On the day Senator Kamala Harris made history as the first woman and the first woman of color to become Vice President-Elect, Kurt and I started work on a series of 46 photographs to celebrate Harris and to honor Lexington women of color who lead,” wrote Todorova on the project website. “We began by recognizing we had already photographed many women of color who are leaders in our community for the project “Lexington in the Time of COVID-19”. So we wrote to each of them to share about what we were doing and to ask if we could include the portraits we had taken of them.”