Kamala Harris made history with quiet, exquisite power
Nov 15, 2020
4 minutes
The Washington Post
ROBERT GALBRAITH
Reuters
HISTORY was right there in the making all the time.
When it arrived, there was no screaming shock to the system. The system was, quite frankly, numb. Instead, it was a moment of hushed catharsis. Of release. Of tears that had been buried so deep, for so long, that they bubbled up slowly and quietly.
From the moment president-elect Joe Biden asked senator Kamala Harris to join the ticket, the country knew that she could become the nation’s first black woman and first Asian-American woman to be vice-president.
And yet the reality of what that meant or how that would look, seemed to recede into the background of a campaign narrative that was dominated by
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