Kamala Harris creates history, sworn in as US VP
By Nelson A. King
Caribbean American former
United States Senator Kamala
Harris created history on
Wednesday as she was sworn
in as US vice president by US
Supreme Court Justice Sonia
Sotomayor.
Harris, the daughter of a
Jamaican father and an Indian
mother, became not only the
first Caribbean American to
hold the US vice president office
but also the first Black and Indian
American to do so.
She was sworn in 212 years
after John Adams became America’s
first vice president
In taking the oath of office,
Harris repeated after Justice
Sotomayor.
“I, Kamala Devi Harris, do
solemnly swear that I will support
and defend the Constitution
of the United States,” she said.
“That I will support and defend
the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies, foreign
and domestic. That I will
bear true faith and allegiance
to the same. That I will bear
true faith and allegiance to the
same.
“That I take this obligation
freely without any mental reservation
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or purpose of evasion,”
she added. “That I will well and
faithfully discharge the duties of
the office on which I am about
to enter. So, help me God.”
Shortly after Harris took
the oath, former US Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton, who
had competed with outgoing
President Donald J. Trump for
the presidency four years ago,
expressed delight with Harris’s
ascension.
“It delights me to think that
what feels historical and amazing
to us today — a woman
sworn in to the vice presidency
— will seem normal, obvious,
‘of course’ to Kamala’s grandnieces
as they grow up,” tweeted
Clinton, the only woman ever to
receive a major party’s presidential
nomination, posting a photo
of Harris with the two little
girls. “And they will be right.”
In November, after four years
of tumultuous rule by Republican
Trump, Democrats Joe
Biden and Harris were elected
president and vice president,
respectively.
After surpassing the requisite
270 electoral votes to clinch the
presidency, major television networks
and the Association Press
declared Biden on as the next
president of the United States.
“Wow, democracy prevails,”
exclaimed veteran New York
State Assemblyman Jamaican
N. Nick Perry in a Caribbean
Life interview. “Every American
alive today can breathe a full
sigh of relief. Nobody has any
time or need for a concession
by this man (Trump) so unfit to
hold the office.
“We have reclaimed our country,
and now we have someone
dignified, qualified and fit to
lead us,” added Perry, who represents
the predominantly Caribbean
58th Assembly District
in Brooklyn.
“There is icing on this cake
for all Jamaicans, because we
can’t be more proud of the fact
that the US Vice President-elect
Kamala Harris has strong Caribbean
roots,” he continued.
“May God bless and keep our
new president-elect and vice
president-elect safe and healthy,
as we prepare to march them
into the White House. God bless
America!
Perry and other Caribbean
American legislators had urged
the Caribbean community here
to flood the November 3 US general
elections in casting ballots
for Biden and Harris.
“In our lifetimes, we have
heard before, ‘this is the most
important election ever’, but
never has this been truer than
this 2020 election,” Perry told
Caribbean Life, stating that four
more years of Trump’s presidency
would “see the destruction
of America’s democracy, as
we know it, and as the founding
fathers tried to create.
“After only four years, one
would have to be totally blind
to not see and hear the awful
noise of the breaks and cracks of
our Democratic system of government
that no one imagined
could have occurred,” he added.
Kamala Harris is sworn in as U.S. Vice President during the
59th Presidential Inauguration at in Washington, U.S., January
20, 2021. Saul Loeb/Pool via REUTERS
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