As celebrity host of the third night of the Democratic National Convention, Mindy Kaling took the stage to pledge her support for the presidential campaign of Kamala Harris, whom she calls a friend.
DNC host and actress Mindy Kaling jokes that she 'outed' Harris as an Indian
After joking that she was “the woman who bravely outed Kamala Harris as Indian in an Instagram cooking video,” Kaling shared her observations from one of the first times she met the vice president:
"She wasn't vice president at the time, she was my senator, and we were shooting a video of her coming to my house to cook dosas, which is a Southern Indian dish," Kaling recalled. "It's not every day that a senator comes over, and I was pretty nervous, but when she arrived, we just hit it off. We were talking about the love we have for our mothers, who both passed away from cancer. Our mothers were both immigrants from India who came to America and dedicated their lives to serving others."
Kaling explained that while her mother became an OGBYN, Harris' mother, Shyamala, was a scientist searching for a cure for cancer: "It was clear to me that Shyamala had passed on that same optimism and fearlessness to her daughter," she said.
