In 1969, he landed in small, segregated Bamberg, S.C., to teach at Voorhees College, a nearby HBCU. Her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, from the Punjab region of India, got a master’s degree in biology before moving to Canada to get a Ph.D. Nimrata Nikki Randhawa was born January 20, 1972, the third of four children of a Sikh family living in rural central South Carolina. She was (after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana) the second Indian American governor ever. She was (along with Susana Martinez of New Mexico) the first non-white and non-male governor in the history of the United States of America. She was the first person to be elected the governor of South Carolina who wasn’t a white man. She returned to that line in her new video, saying, with a smile, “It hurts them more when you’re wearing heels.” 1. “I kick with a smile,” she later told POLITICO. “I wear heels, but it’s not a fashion statement,” she once said.
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