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Kamala Harris: A giant leap for humankind
Joe Biden's choice of running mate shows that democracy in the US has become more representative
Half a century after the US landed men on the moon, a black woman is the nominee for vice-president, thus standing on the threshold of becoming president. As a measure of human progress, the first is to physics what the second is to social equality. Yet each is alike in the distance travelled and the obstacles overcome.
Joe Biden vowed to name a woman as his running mate even before he emerged as the Democratic party’s primary winner from the most diverse field of presidential candidates — diverse in gender, ethnicity, generation, sexual orientation and ideology. He had no shortage of prospects. In Kamala Harris he has chosen a governing partner with roots in social justice. Her selection reflects Biden’s promise to reduce incarceration and reform policing in response to this year’s social justice protest movement...
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