Kamala Harris’s missed opportunity

THERE are clear indications that United States Vice-president-elect Kamala Harris does not have a civil relationship with her father, retired Stanford University Professor Donald… which is sad!

This at a time when Jamaicans in the United States, who played a major role in the removal of Donald Trump and Mike Pence from office as US president and vice-president, respectively, would be looking to have a claim, with authority, on someone who is connected to Jamaica — a country that is linked to greatness in every corner that you could venture.

Harris has not missed an opportunity to highlight her link to India, the birthplace of her mother, who emigrated to the USA several decades ago where she met Donald Harris, later got married, and bore two daughters, methinks, from sexual escapades that meant the world to them at the time.

Kamala Harris

But when it comes to Jamaica, she is usually mum, although she will be forced to state clearly, quite soon, her position on her father and the Jamaican contact, what with so many aggressive journalists lined up to step further into her personal life.

It is sad that for a vice-president-elect she seems unrepentant in trying to settle what has been rampant for some time. Now that she virtually occupies that office, it must be incumbent upon her to lead the way in mending the fences of discord that exist between the two. It simply cannot be a situation where forgiveness, if that is what is required, cannot be offered.

Until that time, Jamaicans cannot, with any amount of credibility, claim Harris as a daughter of the soil, and her visits as a youngster to the sections of St Ann North Western, where her father has his home base, would have counted for nothing.