Kamala Harris - First Woman Of Colour Elected VP

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Kamala Harris - First Woman Of Colour Elected VP

1. Kamala Harris, 56, will become the first black, female US Vice President
2. The California senator first served as San Francisco's district attorney 
3. She will be sworn in along with President-elect Joe Biden on January 20 
4. Harris tweeted a video of herself phoning Joe Biden on Saturday to say 'we did it' 
5. Her husband Doug Emhoff will become the nation's first Second Gentleman

California Sen. Kamala Harris will become the next vice president of the United States, shattering another racial and gender barrier in American politics, at the end of a bruising presidential race that further exposed a bitterly divided electorate.

it is a jubilant moment for many women across the country, but most notably for Black female activists who pushed Joe Biden to name a Black woman as his running mate. 

Harris did not shatter the "highest, hardest glass ceiling" that Clinton somberly talked about when conceding in the Democratic primary in 2008 and general presidential election in 2016. But it is a singular feat that a Black woman who is a daughter of immigrants achieves this milestone first, in a country where some may have expected a white woman to break this barrier.

In the closing days of the campaign, Harris was the subject of attacks from the president, who called her a "monster" and a "communist," and argued that it would be an "insult" if she one day became the first female president. Republican Sen. David Perdue appeared to intentionally mock Harris' first name at a campaign rally in Georgia.

Kamala Harris, 56, will bring a legion of firsts to the vice presidency: A daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, she will be the first woman, the first Black person, the first Indian American and the first Asian American to hold the office. She will also be the first graduate of a historically Black college and first member of a Black sorority to do so.

Kamala Harris’s family is also unique. Her husband, Doug Emhoff, who will become the country’s first “second gentleman”, has children from a previous marriage and is Jewish. Emhoff has been a close confidante and active participant in the Biden campaign, holding some fundraisers and appearing regularly as a supportive figure for his wife.

Her mother's legacy
Multiple women pointed to the profound influence of Harris' mother, Shyamala Gopalan, that led the Californian to this moment. Gopalan, who left India in the 1950s to pursue graduate studies at UC Berkeley, died of cancer in 2009.

Her father, Donald Harris, is a professor of economics at Stanford University. The two divorced when Harris was a child, and it is her mother's impact on Harris — in life and through her death — that is indelible.

Climbing the law and order ranks
After four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.

She became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first woman and the first black person to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.

In her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her election as California's junior US senator in 2017.

Kamala Harris shared a video of her calling to congratulate Joe Biden after the US presidential election was called for the Democratic candidate. 'We did it Joe,' Harris says, while apparently out on a walk with her husband. 'You're going to be the next president of the United States.'

 

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I loved her speech. I give Joe Biden's speech the highest possible rating and marks - it was wonderful to hear an adult (two adults) speak to Americans as leaders and not owners or pentacostal endtimers. without nastiness and smearing, without insults or grubby insinuations, without slander and libel and lies. We have thirsted for this moment and have had PTSD since 2016. Now the healing begins, we hope.