Ground breaking first black woman VP elected in America
Kamala Harris broke one of the world’s highest glass ceilings on Saturday to be elected America’s first black woman vice president.
Harris came into Tuesday’s election already a repeat ground breaking history maker as California’s first black attorney general and the first woman of South Asian heritage elected to the US Senate.
“While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last,” Harris said. “Because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.”
“And to the children of our country, regardless of your gender, our country has sent you a clear message: Dream with ambition, lead with conviction and see yourself in a way that others might not see you, simply because they’ve never seen it before. And we will applaud you every step of the way.”
Harris, 56, was born to immigrants to the United States — her father from Jamaica, her mother from India — and their lives and her own have in some ways embodied the American dream.
