Kamala Harris has just made history by becoming the the first woman, the first Black person and the first Indian-American to hold office of the US Vice President. In her acceptance speech, she paid tribute to her late Indian mother and her Indian roots.
"I'm grateful to the woman most responsible for my presence here today, my mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris. When she came here from India at the age of 19, she maybe didn't imagine this moment. But she believed so deeply in America where moments like this are possible," Kamala Harris said in her first address to the nation as Vice President-Elect.
"I am thinking about her and generations of women, black women, Asian, White, Latina, Native American women who throughout our nation's history have paved the way for this moment tonight," she said to a loud and cheering audience.
Kamala Harris is the daughter of an Indian immigrant and a Jamaican-born father.
In her first public address, Harris paid tribute to the women who paved the way for her historic win - the suffragettes who secured & protected the right to vote, black women and her late mother.
¡°Tonight I reflect on their struggle, their determination and the strength of their vision to see what can be unburdened by what has been. And I stand on their shoulders,¡± she told thousands of cheering supporters at the Chase Centre in Wilmington, Delaware.
She also hailed US President elect Joe Biden for having the ¡°audacity¡± to choose her as his running mate. ¡°But while I will be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last,¡± she stressed.