'She will shake the table': Black lawmakers explain what Kamala Harris means to them
WILMINGTON, Del. — “Twice as hard, half as much.”
That’s a near-universal mantra drilled into the heads of non-white Americans when they are children. It’s one of many talks passed down from generation to generation of Black and brown kids, an instruction that they may have to settle for less than their white colleagues, classmates and friends, despite exerting the same — or more — effort.
Despite shattering what was thought by some to be a near impenetrable glass ceiling — a Black man, with a non-Western sounding name, winning over the most powerful political office in the world — President Barack Obama repeated the message during a commencement address at Morehouse College, a historically Black school, in 2013. And in her popular memoir, “Becoming,” former first lady Michelle Obama offered near identical advice.
But times are changing. The current Congress is the most racially and ethnically diverse in U.S. history. For the first time, as the country is rife with racial turmoil, a vice presidential nominee on a major party ticket is a woman of color.
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