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2021-01-21 06:26:51
By Dwaipayan
The founder of a pro-Harris group, Mamas for Momala -- celebrated the inauguration just as she had volunteered during the campaign: remotely. She pulled on a sweater representing the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority that she and Harris share, ate a special lunch of her mother's gumbo and joined her fellow "Mamas" for a Facebook watch party.
All around the country this week, Black women followed suit -- dressing up, toasting and exulting at home and online as the former US senator and California attorney general walked into history.
"I'm not going to allow the plans and the plots of these White supremacist terrorists to interfere with the joy that I have," the 39-year-old Murray said from her home in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington. "This moment belongs to all of us who worked so hard."
'We delivered'
In office, Harris "will stand as one, but she will bring 10,000," said Glynda Carr, the president and CEO of Higher Heights for America, paraphrasing the late poet Maya Angelou. "She's a woman. She's a woman of color. She's a Black woman, a daughter of immigrants. She belongs to a historically Black Greek Letter organization. She went to a historically Black college."
"As she governs, she brings those voices with her," said Carr, whose organization focuses on building Black women's political power.
Black women were crucial to the Biden-Harris victory, with 90% backing the ticket in November, Georgia, a state that went blue in the presidential contest for the first time since 1992, Black women supported Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff by even wider margins -- elevating them to the Senate in this month's runoffs and giving their party control of the chamber.
Black women "show up consistently for this country," said LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, which mobilized voters in Georgia and in key battlegrounds to help secure Joe Biden's victory. She also helped lead a high-profile campaign last summer by Black female activists to push Biden to add an African American woman to the ticket.
In lobbying then-candidate Biden, "I made a promise that, literally, if you select a Black woman vice president, Black women are going to deliver it to you," Brown recounted Wednesday.
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