On trip to France, Kamala Harris is introducing herself to the world in personal terms
LA TimesFrench President Emmanuel Macron speaks to Vice President Kamala Harris before ceremonies marking the 103rd anniversary of Armistice Day on Thursday in Paris. When Vice President Kamala Harris toured an American military cemetery outside Paris this week, she stopped at the grave of a woman from Oakland who had served as a switchboard operator during World War I. Harris’ guide said such women, known as “Hello Girls,” were adept at working phone lines. “Because they could have also been surgeons.” Harris’ trip to France has afforded her an opportunity to reveal herself on the world stage — highlighting her status as the first woman, and the first woman of color, to serve in such a high office in the U.S. — after she spent 10 months focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises that have battered her reputation at home. The event will be a source of pride to many French, though people tend to remain uncomfortable around the topic of race and the country’s own history in the slave trade, said Christiane Taubira, the first Black woman to serve as France’s minister of justice.
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