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A message from League of United Latin American Citizens

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LULAC Women Leaders Congratulate Kamala Harris
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CEO and Vice-President of Nation’s Leading Latino Civil Rights Organization Call
Her Election Historic

Washington, DC - The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) today
issued the following statement:

Elsie Valdes-Ramos – LULAC National Vice-President for Women
“America today is witnessing history. Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris is the
first woman ever elected to the second highest office in our country and the fact
that she is a woman of color, gives me even greater reason to celebrate that I am
alive to witness this moment.

I know that Vice-President Harris will champion overcoming and removing the
barriers created by what can only be described as genderphobia. She understands
from her own experience growing up, the challenges that women are confronted with
daily, especially women of color or of mixed race. All too often, society fails
to allow itself to see beyond gender to embrace the greater ideals we share
including that we are all ‘created equal, that (we) are endowed by (our) Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness’.

2021 must be the year when America definitively resolves and acts to right
generations of inequality and inequities for women in the United States and
Puerto Rico. This includes compensation in the workplace, true equal employment
with advancement opportunities and stricter laws and penalties to deal with
sexual harassment on the job. So too, we must see greater support and assistance
to women working as dual parents raising children by themselves or who may be
experiencing domestic abuse and violence. Also, the expected deliberation by the
Supreme Court about a woman’s right to decide her own reproductive health and
care will come to the forefront while Vice-President Harris is in office.
Undoubtedly, her leadership will play a pivotal role in the tone and tenor of the
public discourse among millions of women across America.

Indeed, today marks the beginning and the LULAC Women’s Commission looks forward
to engaging with Vice-President Harris to discuss these and other critical issues
we care about.”

Sindy Benavides – LULAC National Chief Executive Officer
“Seldom in a lifetime do we get to see an event as transformative as what we are
seeing today through the greatest expression of our democracy, our right to vote
and to elect those we choose to lead us. The results show that voters of all
backgrounds, races and beliefs see themselves in Kamala Harris, a 56-year old
American daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants who will help make Joe Biden
a better president for everyone. Her strength, her independence and her own moral
compass as a leader should inspire all women in our nation and indeed, around the
world. Her voice will espouse peace over violence, her views will engender
inclusion rather than exclusion and her spirit will light a path towards unity
not division.

Our nation has been through a difficult period these past few months of a
horrific pandemic that has cost us dearly in the loss of loved ones and we are
still seeking a way forward. I am truly encouraged that Vice-President Elect
Harris will advocate for and encourage the future Biden Administration to bring
relief swiftly to our communities of color that have been hit disproportionately
by COVID-19. They are in pain and feel abandoned economically, cut off from
health care and other vital social services. Her own experience growing up in a
working family has prepared her well to empathize with our nation’s essential men
and women workers risking their own lives and health to put food on our table and
theirs.

As an immigrant daughter myself, carried here as a one-year old infant by my
mother from Honduras who dreamed of a better life for us, I feel blessed to now
be raising our two small children in the United States. However, I also recognize
as does Vice-President Elect Harris, that women of color bear the additional duty
of exceeding the expectation set for others around them. It is an expectation
that is both imposed by others and one that we impose upon ourselves because we
understand personally the sacrifices our parents made so that we might have a
better future. I have no doubt that in the next four years, millions of women
will walk with Kamala every day, we will say a quiet prayer for Kamala every day,
and we will smile privately within ourselves every day, just knowing she is there
for all Americans. God Bless America!”

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About LULAC
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the nation’s largest and
oldest civil rights volunteer-based organization that empowers Hispanic Americans
and builds strong Latino communities. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with 1,000
councils around the United States and Puerto Rico, LULAC’s programs, services and
advocacy address the most important issues for Latinos, meeting critical needs of
today and the future. For more information, visit www.LULAC.org [ [link removed] ] .







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