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highest office. For the first time in 231 years, the United States of America has elected
the first Black woman to serve aptly as the nation’s vice president.
Harris carries the weight of history on her shoulders for women, Blacks, Indian-Harris
has shattered an unspoken covenant of an exclusive men’s club that has largely
excluded minorities and effectively excluded women. Today, the nation said, “No
more!”
As the first person of color elected to the vice presidency, her very “being” is the
epitome of the multi-cultural America this nation is striving—in fits and starts—to
become.
With the 2020 election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as President and Vice
President the nation took another giant step in that direction.
Photo: Kamala Harris’ husband (Doug Emhoff) embraces her after the declared
victory.
When President-elect Joe Biden selected Harris as his running mate in August he
declared at the time, “You make a lot of important decisions as president, but the first
one is who you select to be your Vice President.”
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