KAMALA HARRIS took a protest on Wednesday to become the first vice president in US history.
Harris’s oath was taken by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is of Latino origin.
“I, Kamala Harris, solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies and that I will be faithful to it, and that I freely assume this obligation without any mental reservation and that I will faithfully fulfill the duties of the office that I am to assume. With the help of God ”, were the words of Harris.
Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to an immigrant family: a mother from India and a father born in Jamaica.
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The now vice president studied at Howard University, one of the nation’s prominent and historic African-American centers of higher learning, something she described as among the most formative experiences of her life.
His political career took center stage in the Democratic party after being attorney general of California.
With a brilliant career, worthy of the best American dream despite controversial chapters, the former senator liked to repeat: “My mother often told me: Kamala, you could be the first to achieve many things. Make sure you are not the last. “
Since the beginning of her career, this daughter of immigrants has been a pioneer in many ways. After two terms as a prosecutor in San Francisco (2004-2011), she was twice elected California prosecutor (2011-2017), becoming the first woman, but also the first black person, to lead the state’s judicial services more. town of the country.
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Then, in January 2017, she was sworn into the Senate in Washington, becoming the first woman with roots in South Asia to reach the Upper House, and the second black senator in US history.
Harris knows the new president of the United States well, whom she sometimes simply calls “Joe” in public, as she was close to her son Beau, who died of cancer in 2015.
Harris grew up in Oakland, progressive California in the 1960s, proud of her parents’ fight for civil rights: a Jamaican economics professor and a now-deceased Tamil Indian breast cancer researcher.
He studied at Howard University, founded in Washington to host segregated African-American students, and regularly recalls his membership in the Alpha Kappa Alpha Black Student Association.
Married since August 2014 to Douglas Emhoff, a lawyer and father of two, Kamala Harris is generally scathing towards her opponents. In the Senate, Harris became known for her sometimes chilling interrogations during high-tension hearings. N
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