Week 13- Kemara Gopeesingh

The op-ed piece I read was “Padma Lakshmi: Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris Moved Me to Tears.” Padma Lakshmi shared her feelings about when she found out Kamala Harris was the Vice-President Elect, in which she got emotional, because finally women of color is being represented in the government, being that she is a woman of color herself. She recognizes the fact that now women of color aren’t invisible anymore. With Kamala Harris making history, she will be an inspiration to young girls today. Padma says “When I first came to this country at age 4 from India, walking around New York City, I was excited to see all kinds of people — with different colors of skin, styles of dress and ways of moving through the world. But slowly I became aware of a different world, through magazines and TV, where almost everyone was white.” Using that, she compares and contrasts how times were when she now moved to the U.S, to how times are now with a women of color in office, which is what made this piece effective. Padma sends out the message that if Kamala Harris, a women of color, can’t be silenced, then we can’t be silenced either.