History for the United States of America…..
A President that used racism in his politics came in after the nations first Black/Mixed President ands will leave with the nations’s first Black /Mixed Vice-President coming into office….
America IS Great….
With her ascension to the vice presidency, Ms. Harris will become the first woman and first woman of color to hold that office, a milestone for a nation in upheaval, grappling with a damaging history of racial injustice exposed, yet again, in a divisive election. Ms. Harris, 56, embodies the future of a country that is growing more racially diverse, even if the person voters picked for the top of the ticket is a 77-year-old white man.
That she has risen higher in the country’s leadership than any woman ever has underscores the extraordinary arc of her political career. A former San Francisco district attorney, she was elected as the first Black woman to serve as California’s attorney general. When she was elected a United States senator in 2016, she became only the second Black woman in the chamber’s history.
Almost immediately, she made a name for herself in Washington with her withering prosecutorial style in Senate hearings, grilling her adversaries in high-stakes moments that at times went viral….
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Ms. Harris’s presence on the ticket will forever be linked to Mr. Biden’s explicit promise to select a female running mate in an acknowledgment that the party’s future probably does not look like him.
Ms. Harris now finds herself the most clearly positioned heir to the White House. Perhaps more than any other vice president in recent memory, she will be carefully scrutinized for her ambitions, a level of attention that is perhaps inevitable for the No. 2 of the oldest incoming No. 1 in history.
Mr. Biden understands this, Mr. Booker said: “He is really bringing us to the next election.”
Allies say Ms. Harris is acutely aware of her place in history. She views her work as connected to both the civil rights leaders who came before her — the “ancestors,” as she calls them — and the generations she hopes to empower.
Representative Pramila Jayapal, Democrat of Washington, a rising figure in the party’s left wing, said Ms. Harris’s ascent was a deep source of pride among South Asians, expanding the imaginations of how high they can climb in American public life. Ms. Jayapal has spoken proudly of her own connection to the new vice president, writing an op-ed article in The Los Angeles Times in August describing their intertwined family history in South India.
“She understands what it means to be the child of immigrants — what it means to be a person of color seeking racial justice,” she said, pointing to Ms. Harris’s work on rights for domestic workers and helping Muslim immigrants get access to legal counsel. “There’s just so much you don’t have to explain to a Vice President Harris and I believe she will fight for many of the issues that are important to our South Asian community.”….
image….Credit…Joe Buglewicz for The New York Times
Never forget!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis
Still, a great milestone for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Jamacian-Americans, and Indian-Americans.
At the end of the day, we are all Americans, where all things are possible.
Mazel Tov as well to Doug
And of course for women and girls everywhere.
Of COURSE…..
Amen CG…..
Donald Trump seemed AFRAID of one the great parts of America….
Immigrants….
Everybody’s family have come from somewhere else….
EVERYBODY….
First photo of PE Biden is of him wearing blue hat that says “We Just Did.” With 46 underneath.
Savage.
Great Win, Great Feeling to know it is all but done. The Ruling on Field Will Stand no matter how many challenge flags are thrown…