Inauguration is a ceremony to mark the start of a new four year term of the president of the united states. The president elect along with vice president elect take the oath and get sworn into office. The presidential elect is always inaugurated on January 20th of the following year of the election.
Wednesday January 20th 2021, Joseph R Biden became the 46th president of the united states and Kamala Harris became the first women, Black, and Asian vice president. They both took the oath and were sworn into office before noon eastern time. Biden addressed the nation calling for unity, stating “ without unity, there's no peace, only bitterness and fury. No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only state of chaos...this is our historic moment of crisis and challenge...unity is the path forward”. He mentions being a president for all Americans and says he will fight just as hard for those who didn't vote for him as those who did. He talked about systematic racism and racial justice stating “the dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer” he also denounced the uprising of political extremists, white supremacy, and demostic terrorism saying “we must confront and we will defeat”. Lastly, Biden talks about the raging virus stating “we must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation. One nation” they then took a moment of silence for the 400,000 lives lost this last year due to the pandemic.
Looking forward to the shift in power, I'm curious to see what Biden has in store and what he will do for the people of our country. I’m also very excited to have a woman vice president, especially one that looks like me because it shows me that anything is possible and I can be whatever I aspire to be. However with a new president that does not mean we will not hold him accountable for his action and it does not mean the fight is over. Just because Trump isn't in office anymore and we are having a shift in power it doesn't mean the things that I, along with so many others, have been fighting for will magically go away. there’s still change, justice, and accountability that needs to be seeked. So as much as it’s so much better to have a president that actually cares about my rights as a woman and a BIPOC person in America, my fights, along with many others, is not over.