Like many of you, I’m spending today thinking about my mother. She was all of 5 feet, but she could move mountains, as she proved when she crossed an ocean at age 19 to study here.pic.twitter.com/NtPAEpeQs1
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There’s a photo I cherish of her and one of her best friends in life, my Auntie Lenore, standing in front of a sign that says, “Protest Birmingham atrocities. Write the president.”
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She and my father met while they were active in the civil rights movement. My sister Maya and I actually joke that we grew up surrounded by a bunch of adults marching and shouting for this thing called justice. We were raised on stories of the upheaval and activism of the 1960s.
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My mother became a pioneering breast cancer researcher. She maintained her lab at Lawrence Berkeley until the day she died; she knew that the search for truth was a lifelong effort.
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From her, I learned to ask questions, gather evidence, and test hypotheses. I learned that no idea is too precious to be rigorously examined. I learned how to fight for justice and live a life of conscience, and I think of her every day.
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Kamala - I cannot WAIT to meet you in NYC on June 10th. It will be such a privilege
- and here we are now doing just what ur parents and mine were doing back then!
We have 2. keep up the #goodtrouble like@repjohnlewis says. We are in it 4 the long haul! 4 my kid
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Good thing. We need that experience.
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Which you still seem to crave.
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Why didn't you protect are community? Police Killing At All Time High. District Attorney & The Pig Protecter League Are To Blame. Independent prosecutor can't trust gov. Official
#PrisonReform#PoliceBrutality#ACAB -
To Many Mother Lost Their Children due to police brutality
#HappyMothersDay
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Great story! Your mother sounds like a really special woman!
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And then you went on to join the very same party the protest was against; the demokkkrats, now, commiecrats. WOW, smart.
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I love your story!!! These kind of upbringings are why we have warriors such as yourself willing to fight for the little guy! Keep on carrying on.
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