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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Kamala Harris made new history on Saturday US time. She became the first black woman to be elected vice president (vice president) of the United States (US).
He managed to get around the barrier that kept men, almost all white, entrenched at the highest levels of American politics for more than two centuries.
Quoting APNews, Sunday (11/8/2020) The 56-year-old California senator is the first person of South Asian descent to be elected vice president.
Haris’ election as vice president to join Joe Biden represents the multiculturalism that defines America, but largely absent from Washington’s power centers.
His black identity is seen as giving him the freedom to speak privately amid the true situation of police brutality and racism that is so systemic in America.
As the highest ranking woman ever elected to the US administration, her victory gave hope to women who were hit hard by the defeat of the previous candidate, Hillary Clinton, 4 years ago, against Donald Trump.
Harris has been a rising star in Democratic politics for nearly two decades, serving as a San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general before becoming a United States Senator.
After Harris ended his 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, Joe Biden named Harris as his running mate. They will be sworn in as president and vice president on January 20, 2021.
The choice of Biden’s running mate adds significance, as Biden will be the oldest president to be sworn in, at 78, and he has not yet committed to seeking a second term in 2024.
APNews said Harris often framed his candidacy as part of a legacy of pioneering black women who preceded him, including Mary McLeod Bethune, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and Shirley Chisholm, the first black female candidate to seek a presidential nomination from a important party, in 1999. 1972.
“We rarely teach their stories. But as Americans, we all stand on their shoulders,” Harris said last August, when he received his party’s vice presidential nomination.
Despite the euphoria of Biden-Haris’s victory over Trump-Mike Pence, he and Biden face formidable challenges, including deepening racial tensions in the US after a pandemic has claimed a disproportionate number of people. of color and a series of police killings of black Americans.
Harris’s previous work as a prosecutor has sparked skepticism among progressive and young voters who want him to support institutional changes over further reforms in police, drug policy and more.
Harris is the second black woman elected to the Senate.
His colleague, Senator Cory Booker, who is also black, said his presence made the institution more accessible to more people and suggested that he should do the same when he was vice president.
Harris was born in 1964 to two parents active in the civil rights movement. Shyamala Gopalan from India and Donald Harris from Jamaica met at the University of California, Berkeley, which later became a hotbed of activism in the 1960s.
They divorced, Harris and his sister were raised by his late mother, whom he considered the most influential in his life.
Kamala means “lotus flower” in Sanskrit, and Harris echoed his Indian heritage throughout the campaign, even calling him out.
His name has been ridiculed by Republicans, including Trump. This is just one of the attacks Harris has faced. Trump and his allies are trying to brand her radical and socialist despite her more central record, an attempt aimed at making people uncomfortable with the leadership prospects of black women.
It was the target of misinformation online mixed with racism and sexism about his qualifications to serve as president.
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal of Washington said Harris’s strength came not only from her life experiences, but also from the people she already represented.
California is the most populous state and one of the most diverse; almost 40% of the people are Latino and 15% are Asian.
In Congress, Harris and Jayapal worked together on a legislative plan to ensure legal representation for Muslims targeted by Trump’s 2017 travel ban and to grant rights to domestic workers.
Harris’s mother raised her daughters with the understanding that the world would view them as black women, and that is how she describes herself today.
She attended Howard University, one of the nation’s historic black colleges and universities, and promised Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation’s first student society created for black women.
She regularly campaigns in the HBCUs and tries to address the concerns of young black men and women who are eager to go to great lengths to dismantle systemic racism.
APNews assessed that his victory could attract more black women and people of color to politics.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who views Harris as a mentor, views Harris’s success through the lens of his own identity.
“African Americans are not far from slavery and the horrors of racism in this country, and we still feel the impact in the way we are treated and what is happening around this racial insurgency,” he said.
Harris’s candidacy instilled a lot of pride and hope, joy. Harris is married to a Jewish man, Doug Emhoff, a attorney, whose children from a previous marriage called her “Momala”.
Enthusiasm for his candidacy spread to women of various races.
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