Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Cellars podcast, a historic

episode as it is the first episode in the Biden Harris administration. This is a special inauguration episode because we are joined by my South Carolina

brethren Sergio Hudson, the designer for Michelle's inauguration outfit and Kamala Harris, Madam Vice President's post-annauguration

outfit.

Yesterday was obviously hectic and historic, not the least of which was that yesterday represented a watershed day for women and people of color,

particularly black women as Kamala Harris was sworn in as our first woman vice president, and I'd submit she is now both the most powerful

and successful woman in the history of American politics of any race and to that point

I want to take today to not only celebrate my friend

and now our Vice President Kamala Harris, but to also recognize the countless

black women who have toiled in the vineyard of American politics culminating in Vice President Harris's swearing in.

Shirley Chism, Barbara Jordan, Stacy Abrams, Maxine Waters, Donna Brazil, Carol Mosley, Braun, Shirley Franklin, and literally

thousands of other black women elected officials and organizers, all normalized black women

leading and they've taken all the hits that come when

racism and sexism work together to undermine black women and because of them

we're all here now where Vice President Harris is now the most powerful woman in the world.

So I say thank you to all of you for yesterday and specifically we pay homage today to Shirley Chism.

The former Congresswoman and presidential candidate for a man pay homage to to Shirley Chism.

The former Congresswoman and presidential candidate for a major party,

Black First in both regards, built upon the longstanding legacy

of black women organizers in this country with her historic run in 1972 and she

helped to set in motion in terms of American electoral politics what we saw

culminate this cycle both in Kamala Harris's historic run for president and being culmin run for President in 1972. I announced at the Concord Street Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York.

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