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Election: Kamala Harris will be a vice president of many firsts — why her election ‘completely disrupts the status quo’ — Meera Jagannathan

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First female VPFirst Black VP (Jamaican immigrant father)First (East) Indian VP (Indian immigrant mother)First Black college grad VP (Howard University)The times they are a-changin'. Demographics on one hand, attitudes on the other. Barack Obama broke through one glass ceiling, and now Kamala (means "lotus") Harris has broken through another. ‘She is poised to not just put really big cracks in that glass ceiling in this election, but she’s poised to break the glass ceiling in a future election’Regardless of how one feels about the politics, these are giant steps forward for the US that will affect the rest of the world as well. It's things like this that make America great by expanding the meaning of freedom and opportunity.MarketWatchElection: Kamala Harris will be a vice president of

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  • First female VP
  • First Black VP (Jamaican immigrant father)
  • First (East) Indian VP (Indian immigrant mother)
  • First Black college grad VP (Howard University)
The times they are a-changin'. Demographics on one hand, attitudes on the other. Barack Obama broke through one glass ceiling, and now Kamala (means "lotus") Harris has broken through another. 
‘She is poised to not just put really big cracks in that glass ceiling in this election, but she’s poised to break the glass ceiling in a future election’
Regardless of how one feels about the politics, these are giant steps forward for the US that will affect the rest of the world as well. It's things like this that make America great by expanding the meaning of freedom and opportunity.

Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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