Vice President Kamala Harris, the country’s first minority female vice president, has provided some colorful advice to other minority lawmakers such as herself.
“We have to know that sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open. Sometimes they won’t, and then you need to kick that f***ing door down,” Harris said Monday.
Harris made the comment during a moderated conversation with actor and comedian Jimmy O. Yang of Crazy Rich Asians fame at the annual Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Legislative Leadership Summit.
“Don’t ever carry as a personal burden your capacity to do whatever you dream and aspire to do based on other people’s limited ability to see who can do what,” she told the crowd earlier.
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A New York Times/Siena College poll published Monday found that although Biden has a national 46 percentage point advantage over former President Donald Trump among black likely voters, they are tied among Hispanic likely voters with 33% of the vote each. Trump leads Biden, 36% to 33%, among likely voters who identified their race or ethnicity as “other.”
Harris, whose mother was Indian, hosted 500 AANHPI community leaders and small-business owners from across the country at her residence last week to commemorate AANHPI Heritage Month, before speaking alongside Biden at a White House reception later Monday.