{"id":135601,"date":"2024-08-20T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=135601"},"modified":"2024-08-20T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T15:34:12","slug":"the-united-states-of-aunties-the-culture-powering-the-harris-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=135601","title":{"rendered":"The United States Of Aunties: The Culture Powering The Harris Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign, it was \u201cgrandmother\u201d \u2014 the label she frequently turned to when defining herself to voters, attempting to show them who she was apart from her work in politics.<\/p>\n

For Kamala Harris, it might be \u201cauntie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019s presidential nomination has made history several times over. She is the second woman,\u00a0 the first Black woman and the first South Asian woman ever nominated for president by a major party. Now, as she pushes to break the nation\u2019s highest glass ceiling, women \u2014 and especially Black and South Asian women, who already lean Democratic \u2014 have mobilized,\u00a0donating to her campaign\u00a0<\/a>in record-breaking numbers, including the $1.6 million raised by Win With Black Women only hours after Harris declared her candidacy.<\/p>\n

Harris claims that identity proudly in her social media bios, calling herself \u201cWife, Momala, Auntie.\u201d Friends and family have been known to use the \u201cauntie\u201d label in addressing her. References to aunties \u2014 including \u201cAuntie Kamala\u201d herself \u2014 pepper Harris\u2019 2019 memoir, \u201cThe Truths We Hold.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign, it was \u201cgrandmother\u201d \u2014 the label she frequently turned to when defining herself to voters, attempting to show them who she was apart from her work in politics. For Kamala Harris, it might be \u201cauntie.\u201d Harris\u2019s presidential nomination has made history several times over. She is the second woman,\u00a0 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-government","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135603,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135601\/revisions\/135603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}