Now, Caribbean people have a reason to celebrate
18 Jan 2021
Jacqueline Charles,
Tribune News Service
As the US’s next vice president, Kamala Harris is a person of many firsts: the nation’s first female, first Black, first South Asian American and first Jamaican American to hold the second highest office.
But on Sunday it was Harris’ Caribbean roots that took centre stage, as artists, politicians and other luminaries from Antigua to Barbados to Jamaica feted her historical rise as “America’s first Black Caribbean American” vice president in a virtual celebration ahead of Wednesday’s inauguration.
“We’re here to celebrate,” said Felicia Persaud, a Caribbean activist who lives in Plantation, Florida. “We’re here to remember. We’re here to hope. We’re here to resolve. And most of all, we’re here to dream.”