In front of a raucous and rapt Democratic National Convention Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the party’s nomination for president. "We gotta get to some business,” she said while the crowd was still shouting and cheering. “Let’s get to business.
” x x YouTube Video The first business was honoring and thanking President Joe Biden. "When I think about the path that we have traveled together, Joe, I am filled with gratitude," Harris said. "Your record is extraordinary, as history will show, and your character is inspiring, and Doug and I love you and Jill and are forever thankful to you both,” she added.
"America, the path that led me here in recent weeks was no doubt unexpected. But I’m no stranger to unlikely journeys,” Harris said. That journey, she said, started with her mother Shyamala.
"My mother was 19 when she crossed the world alone, traveling from India to California with an unshakeable dream to be the scientist who would cure breast cancer,” Harris said. She explained that her mother raised her in “a beautiful working-class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses, and construction workers, all who tended their lawns with pride.” "She taught us to never complain about injustice but do something about it," she said about her mother.
“And never do anything half-assed. And that is a direct quote!” Harris’ introduction to public service, to helping people, came when she was in high school. “I started to notice something about my b.