WILMINGTON: Kamala Harris delivered her first speech as vice president-elect of the United States Saturday night in an all-white suit, paying tribute to suffragettes of the twentieth century that worked so that women had the right to vote in the United States.
He entered the stage with the song “Work That” by Mary J. Blige, wearing the all-white suit and black mask. She has broken many glass barriers by becoming the first woman and Native American to be elected Vice President of the United States.
“While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last,” Harris said to cheers outside the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware. “Every girl who is watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.”
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long struggle to win the right to vote for women in the United States.
On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, granting all American women the right to vote and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
“All the women who have worked to secure and protect the right to vote for over a century, 100 years ago with the 19th Amendment, 55 years ago with the Voting Rights Act, and now in 2020 with a new generation of women in our country that cast their votes and continued their fight for the fundamental right to vote and be heard, “Harris said Saturday.
According to USA Today, women in Congress emphasized using white suffragette during the presidency Donald trumpState of the Union speeches.
Last year, the House Democratic Women’s Caucus organized the effort. The choice of color honors the women’s suffrage movement that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which gave women the right to vote.
“Tonight I reflect on his struggle, his determination and the strength of his vision to see what can be alleviated by what has been. And I stand on his shoulders. And what a testimony it is to the character of Joe that he had the audacity to break a of the most substantial barriers that exist in our country and to select a woman as its vice president ”, he added.
The collar of Harris’s suit may also have been symbolic, as the kitten tie, a loose tie around the shirt collar, first made fashionable by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was worn two years ago in Sweden. as a sign of protest, USA Today reported.
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