{"id":18696,"date":"2020-11-19T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipschools.org\/?p=18696"},"modified":"2020-11-19T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:22:14","slug":"i-can-be-like-kamala-harris-nashville-students-parents-reflect-on-what-the-first-female-vice-president-elect-means-for-girls-and-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipschools.org\/en\/latest-news\/blog\/i-can-be-like-kamala-harris-nashville-students-parents-reflect-on-what-the-first-female-vice-president-elect-means-for-girls-and-women\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I can be like Kamala Harris:’ Nashville students, parents reflect on what the first female vice president-elect means for girls and women"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story originally appeared on the front page of the print edition of the Tennessean on November 19, 2020.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Eliza\u00a0Maraniss got to stay up past her bedtime one night\u00a0earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Usually, she goes to bed around 7 p.m. or 8 p.m., but this night was special. For the first time she can remember, the 10-year-old watched a president and vice president-elect speak.<\/p>\n

And for the first time in the nation’s history,\u00a0that vice president-elect is a woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It was so exciting because I had never ever seen in my life a president and a vice president talk,” Eliza said. “I think they are going to make a great country for four years We should have women\u00a0in any (position)\u00a0because women can do what men can do \u2014 vice president, president. Anything we can think of that a boy can do, a girl can do too.”<\/p>\n

Eliza wasn’t the only little girl in Nashville \u2014 or across the country \u2014 staying up late the night President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris delivered their victory\u00a0speeches after winning the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n

Across town, London Dollar, 2, gazed at the television screen\u00a0while Harris spoke from Wilmington, Delaware<\/a>. London\u00a0watched a woman who looked a lot like her accept one of the highest positions of power in the free world.<\/p>\n

“We try to be intentional\u00a0about making sure she gets to see people who look like her often\u00a0in books, on\u00a0television.\u00a0That night it was a\u00a0moment of her seeing\u00a0the first vice president woman, first vice president Black woman. She was hyped because we were hyped,”\u00a0Kinita Dollar said of her daughter. “It\u00a0sounds cliche, but representation really matters.”<\/p>\n