Kamala Harris: The First Female Vice President, a celebration
“My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do things, but make sure you’re not the last”
-Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris has accepted her place in history as the First Female Vice President and she has said, “I will not be the last”. Not only is Harris’s gender a first for Vice President, but also her heritage. Kamala is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants.
Ahead of the president-elect speech at a victory event in Delaware, Harris took to the podium to share her thanks and thoughts on the historic moment.
Harris thanked her family and remembered her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris “When she came here from India at the age of 19 she maybe didn’t quite imagine this moment,” she said. “But she believed so deeply in an America where a moment like this is possible.
“So I am thinking about her and the generations of women – Black women, Asian, white, Latina, natives American women – who throughout our nation’s history have paved the way for this moment tonight. Women who fought and sacrificed so much for equality and liberty and justice for all, including the Black women who are too often overlooked but so often prove that they are the backbone of our democracy.”
A California Democrat who previously served as the state’s attorney general, Harris’s presidential campaign revolved around the promise to be a fighter ‘for the people’.