"We will all learn what happens to the kind of capacities and insights of Black women in politics when those capacities and insights are permitted to lead," Jones said.US Democratic vice presidential nominee and Senator from California, Kamala Harris, speaks on the administration of US President Donald Trump failures to contain Covid-19, in Washington, DC, on August 27, 2020 Her election to the vice-presidency should be just the beginning of putting Black women in leadership positions, Jones said, particularly after the role Black women played in organizing and turning out voters in the November election. "Folks are going to have to adapt to her rather than her adapting to them," Jones said. They will have to understand Harris' traditions, like the Hindu celebration of Diwali, Jones said.
People who want to understand Harris and connect with her will have to learn what it means to graduate from a historically Black college and university rather than an Ivy League school. Jones, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and the author of "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All." She will expand the definition of who gets to hold power in American politics, said Martha S. Harris' swearing-in holds more symbolic weight than that of any vice president in modern times. "No, I was raised to understand many people will tell you, 'It is impossible,' but don't listen.'" Whatever you want to do, you can do,'" she recalled during a CBS Sunday Morning interview that aired Sunday. So it wasn't like, "Oh, the possibilities are immense.
"I was raised to not hear `no.' Let me be clear about it. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool/Reuters) Raised not to hear 'no' Harris leaves after the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States on the west front of the U.S. Glenda Glover, the sorority's international president and chief executive office. "This event will certainly be a momentous occasion that will go down in the annals of our archives as one of the greatest days the founders' of Alpha Kappa Alpha could have envisioned," said Dr. To mark the occasion, the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the nation's oldest sorority for Black women, which Harris joined at Howard University, declared Wednesday as Soror Kamala D. The drumline from Harris' alma mater, Howard University, joined the presidential escort. Harris used two Bibles to take the oath, one that belonged to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the late civil rights icon whom Harris often cites as inspiration, and Regina Shelton, who helped raise Harris during her childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. The inauguration activities included nods to her history-making role and her personal story. Harris had been a close friend of Beau Biden, the elder son of Joe Biden and a former Delaware attorney general who died in 2015 of cancer. Vice-President:Įxclusive Canadian aunt and uncle of Kamala Harris reflect on niece's upbringing, historic achievementĪfter Harris' own presidential bid fizzled, her rise continued when Biden chose her as his running mate last August. WATCH | Kamala Harris is sworn in as U.S.
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"You will now have a Black woman who will walk into the White House not as a guest but as a second in command of the free world." "In many folks' lifetimes, we experienced a segregated United States," said Lateefah Simon, a civil rights advocate and longtime Harris friend and mentee.
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Those close to Harris say she'll bring an important - and often missing - perspective in the debates on how to overcome the many hurdles facing the new administration. But it's particularly meaningful because Harris is taking office at a moment of deep consequence, with Americans grappling over the role of institutional racism and confronting a pandemic that has disproportionately devastated Black and brown communities. Her rise is historic in any context, another moment when a stubborn boundary falls away, expanding the idea of what's possible in American politics. President Joe Biden and Harris share a fist-bump during the inauguration on Wednesday.
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