“I want to name this a historic moment – and as a moment for all of us to come together.” If elected, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee would become the first woman, first Black woman, and first south Asian to win the US presidency. Kaur’s grandfather, a Sikh farmer from Punjab, India, sailed to the US by steamship in 1913. “He faced detention, threats of deportation, denial of citizenship. Could he imagine that we would be here, in this moment, 111 years later? Could we have imagined, in our lifetime, this moment would come?”
Kaur was one of a series of speakers that included the actor Mindy Kaling, the congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, the Philadelphia councilwoman Nina Ahmad, the actor Poorna Jagannathan and other south Asian female leaders who called on south Asian women to rally for Harris.
