Today, we celebrate the power of the people. Organizers and community builders, their efforts generations in the making, have delivered a decisive victory to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
By electing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the American people have chosen compassionate leadership, decisively rejected the politics of hate that have defined the past four years, and delivered a mandate for change.
We celebrate the history made in this election; Kamala Harris will be the first woman, the first Black American, the first Asian American, to be Vice President of the United States, shattering yet another concrete ceiling.
Today, we celebrate what we are able to achieve together. Tomorrow, we turn our attention to the work that lies ahead. Our communities continue to grapple with the overlapping crises of public health, economic inequality, and systemic racism.
To address this hurt and harm and set our communities on a pathway to healing, we must be precise in our legislating, intentional in our advocacy, and unapologetic in our pursuit of equity and justice.
We must fight for bold, progressive policies that meet the scale and scope of this crisis, centering the lived experiences of people, and rooting out the deeply entrenched inequities impacting communities nationwide.
Let’s celebrate this victory and then get to work to build a more just America.
In solidarity,
Ayanna