“As a fellow South Asian Tamil, I’m deeply pleased with your dedication to creating the world a greater place,” mentioned AR Rahman. Archive | Photograph credit score: The Hindu
Songwriter and singer AR Rahman endorsed US Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris for the White Home, whereas conducting a live performance for her. Ms. Harris’s mom, Shyamala Gopalan, a most cancers researcher in California, was initially from Chennai (then Madras), the place Mr. Rahman is from.
The pre-recorded live performance on Sunday evening (Oct. 13, 2024) was organized by the AAPI Victory Fund, a Tremendous PAC (Political Exercise Committee) that helps Ms. Harris and different Asian American candidates.
Mr. Rahman sang a number of well-known songs together with Jai Ho. [Be Victorious] from Slumdog Millionaire and ‘Singapenney’ which interprets to ‘lioness’ from the Tamil film referred to as bigil. He was accompanied by drummer Veeramani and sang duets, together with with singer and voice actor Chinmayi Sripada.
“His [Ms. Harris] The curiosity in specializing in what unites us quite than what divides us is a vital message, not just for america however for the world,” Rahman mentioned.
“As a fellow South Asian Tamil, I’m deeply pleased with your dedication to creating the world a greater place,” he mentioned.
Ms. Harris’s mom, Shyamala Gopalan, was Indian and her father is black, from Jamaica. In his guide, The Truths We Maintain: An American JourneyMs. Harris, who was raised primarily by her mom, says that Ms. Gopalan and her kin “instilled in us satisfaction in our South Asian roots” and that Ms. Harris and her sister, Maya, had been raised with “a robust consciousness of and appreciation for Indian tradition.” She additionally says that her mom knew that in america they might be seen as “black” and that’s the reason she raised them to be “assured and proud black ladies.”
Chatting with the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists in July 2024, former US President Donald Trump, who’s preventing Ms Harris for the presidency, questioned Ms Harris’s racial id by suggesting that she had leaned comparatively extra in the direction of their Indian id, till not too long ago. . Harris had characterised Trump’s suggestion for instance of the “usual spectacle: division and disrespect.”
Throughout the live performance on Sunday (October 13, 2024), Indian-born AAPI founder Shekhar Narasimhan urged contributors to become involved within the elections.
“It’s a must to make a plan to vote. It’s a must to volunteer on this marketing campaign and it’s a must to donate,” mentioned Shekhar Narasimhan, including, “It’s referred to as ‘tan man dhan’. [body, mind, wealth].”
Narasimhan mentioned 400,000 Indian American voters in seven “battleground states” [i.e., Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina] may grow to be the “margin of distinction” between profitable and dropping the election, given the margins of victory in these states in 2020.
US President Joe Biden received six of those states, whereas Trump received one, North Carolina, in 2020.
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