It’s been days since Kamala Harris has been announced as the Vice President of the United States from the 2020 elections and I am still feeling the high. In all the craziness that happened around the election, it wasn’t until they disclosed the winners I realized it would be a woman leading in the White House, a black woman.

In a year full of a worldwide pandemic and shut down, continued police brutality, looting, injustice sentences, heartbreaking and shocking early deaths, killer hornets, and e-learning, we may just have a shift in our luck after five long days waiting to see if it was eviction time at the White House.

Regardless of what your political standpoint is, this isn’t your time to voice it. Let it go for just a moment. Go back and read the title of this post because this is the time to celebrate Harris, a woman of color, Miss Madame VP.

This win comes at a high stake and one of the most historical since Obama was in office. Then it was a victory for black people, showing the world that anyone whose skin shines golden can set their eyes on something higher than sports, drug dealing, and rapping. Now women are brought in and it is our time to get the recognition those before us are overdue.

Women have always been the backbone of this planet. We give the beautiful force of nature the personification of a woman and call it Mother Nature because of the nurturing and harmonic wholeness the female species bring to the table. We bare the children and raise them. Create safe, warm homes out of nothing. Become courageous in times of fear. Bring a light of clarity during cloudy moments. And when the numbers are needed, we pull in strong with support.

The result of the 2020 election Exit Polls showed 57 percent of women voted for the Democratic Party that helped put Kamala in office. 57 percent of women made their voice heard so one woman can get the chance to lead, a dream many of us thought we may never see. 57 percent of women believed that there could be a change and it could only be done with a woman’s touch. But what I found most shocking from the voters poll numbers was that Harris pulled in 90 percent of Black women votes.

Black women are owed this victory. The many stories that have risen since the announcement of the next president has been spotlighting the heroes who went out in the streets to get people to the polls. Stacey Abrams, Tamieka Atkins, and LaTosha Brown were one of the many activists and organizers who rallied to show communities that their voices CAN be heard and hold power. That they can make a difference in the world. This type of heroism has been passed down through numerous of leaders before us. Sojourner Truth, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Ida B. Wells, and Harriet Tubman—just to name a few—all made it their life work to fight for the rights of women, people of color, and more specifically black women.

Many want to debate Harris’s race, as they have with Obama. But just like him, she represents every woman of color who has put in their vote, worked without the proper awards, been abused, cheated, put down, let go, and unloved. For all of those women, this win is for you!

Let this always be a reminder that no matter what the world tries to mold you into, you have the power to break free of it. You are beyond what they can ever see, what they can ever imagine. You possess strength, poise, elegance, and leadership within you. You were a force the moment you were born and the fire in you burns brighter each day you open your eyes and be the phenomenal woman you were meant to be. You have always been destined for greatness and there is nothing out there that will EVER stop your Glow!

Madame Vice President | This Is For You Black Women