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Kamala means “lotus” in Sanskrit, the primary liturgical language of Hinduism and philosophy, and is included in principal texts of Buddhism with a 3500-year history.
There is sufficient biographical information available about Harris’s biracial African American and Indian American identity inherited from her parents, Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris, who both immigrated to the United States from India and Jamaica, respectively, to pursue doctorate degrees at the University of California, Berkeley.
Kamala Harris has carried several astute political positions, from elected San Francisco District Attorney, California Attorney General and the second Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
After a short-lived campaign as a presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden shocked the world by choosing Harris to be his nominee for Vice President on the ballot for the upcoming 2020 Presidential election. She was vetted and scrutinized and graciously accepted to step into the second position.
Biden considered Harris’s creditability and experience more than enough to carry her weight in the process to victory. He did the right thing! Most interestingly is how the name, Kamala meaning lotus, when capitalized creates an acronym L.O.T.U.S. that can be acclaimed as meaning “Leader of the United States.”
Call it prophesy or destiny, hieroglyphics from Ancient Egypt clearly show the lotus flower alongside its leaders. Harris has already served as Vice President, standing next to Joe Biden, the current president. Now she is more than ready and prepared to sit at the resolution desk in the oval office of the white house.
Research on the lotus reveals it to be a flower ready to take on the world, flexible and strong, securely anchored. When the lotus first begins to sprout, it is underwater, making its home in lakes and ponds where the water remains still on the surface. But underneath the surface, the lotus is surrounded by mud and muck and rough conditions.
Despite these conditions, the lotus flower maintains strength and pushes aside each of these obstacles as it makes its way to clearer surfaces, finally freeing itself from the harsh life conditions below. Kamala has already shown she is able to rise above the dirt.
From the pantsuits, the choice of foot comfort from her favorite Converse sneakers to the various strands of pearls worn to pay homage to the founding members of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the first Black Greek-letter sorority she was part of at Howard University; all eyes far and near are focused once again on Kamala Harris. It is no mistake that her name has become her legacy and her destiny.
Despite the odds, the polls, the critics, and the naysayers, all Americans must push aside any obstacles that are blocking our way to justice. Get ready, get ready for Madame President, the Leader of the United States of America.
[Hazel Rosetta Smith is a journalist, playwright, and artistic director for Help Somebody Theatrical Ministries and HRS Speaks! Retired, former Managing Editor and Woman’s Editor of the New York Beacon. Contact: misshazel@twc.com and online www.hazelrosettasmith.com]
