Newly-elected US Vice President Kamala Harris just made history as the first woman to ever become vice president. She’s breaking many other barriers, too, as she is the first Black person and first person of South Asian American descent to enter into this role.
She and newly elected US President Joe Biden won the long race against US Pres. Donald Trump today and will be sworn in January 2021.
“She’s the first Black woman to be considered vice president of this country, and it means so much to me, being a Black woman who is a leader, who looks up to people like her,” Brittany Oliver, a women’s rights activist and communications director who supported Harris during the primary, told the Vox publication.
Clinton Township resident Alisa Hicks, 32, agrees.
“She’s looking out for our people,” Hicks previously told The Michigan Chronicle. “Hopefully Kamala when being the vice president will change [things] as far as the pandemic. She’s not here for games; she means business.”
Harris’s nomination for this role was revolutionary. As the new vice president, Harris could play an impactful role in developing policies and priorities for a Biden administration, while sending a heavy message about what’s possible for other women and people of color.
Harris spent the lion’s share of her career as a prosecutor before getting elected to the Senate in 2016; she also ran for the presidency before she was named Biden’s running mate in the summer. Now, voters are also looking to the duo to address racial and gender disparities in the policies they brought to the forefront of their campaigns.
On Election Day, Harris made a visit to Metro Detroit encouraging her supporters to do the right thing and they listened in Southfield, Detroit, and many other places in this swing state.
“They know our power. They know when we vote things change. … We will not be sidelined in this election,” she said earlier this week in Southfield.
During what was her last rally cry in Detroit before being elected Vice President, Bishop Charles H. Ellis III of Greater Grace Temple told her before the crowd, “We’ll meet you in D.C.” he said almost prophetically as a surge of energy flowed through the crowd.
We most certainly will meet you there.
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