Kamala Harris was honored on Saturday (Feb. 22) at the NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles. At the end of the night, the former vice president took home the Chairman’s Prize, an award given to “individuals who excel in public service and leverage their unique platforms to ignite and drive meaningful change,” as per the organization’s website.
And while the venue was full of cheers and love for the politician, Harris took her time to address the nation as it reached the first full month of Donald Trump in office.
Harris put the power in the hands of every Black person in the room for the “fight for justice, equality and opportunity,” saying, “While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the oval office nor by the wealthiest among us. The American story will be written by you. Written by us. By we the people.”
“Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy and ask ‘What do we do now?’” Harris added. “But we know exactly what to do, because we have done it before. And we will do it again. We use our power. We organize, mobilize. We educate. We advocate. Our power has never come from having an easy path. Our strength flows from our faith—faith in God, faith in each other, and our refusal to surrender to cynicism and destruction.”
Kamala Harris hasn’t spoken much about her loss to Donald Trump since that day in November 2024. However, Trump has referenced her and former president Joe Biden on numerous occasions since taking the Oval House.
During his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the convicted felon mocked both the duo with jabs about their election numbers and their handling of the economy before stating, “I haven’t said those [names] in a while,” and then using a couple of expletives to drill home his point about the 46th president.
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