Dozens of Oakland natives and people from across the bay gathered to watch the historic nomination of Kamala Harris on Thursday night.
OAKLAND -- 'To even know someone from Oakland is going to become president of the United States. It's amazing!' Cynthia Adams, president of the NAACP Oakland branch and organizer of a Kamala Harris /DNC watch party Thursday night, said many of the people who attended never thought they would live to see the day where a woman, let alone a Black South Asian woman and an Oakland native, would rise to become the Democratic Party nominee for president.
Sisters Earnestine and Adia Harrison said that watching Harris accept the nomination in the town where both they and Harris were born was something special. 'Being the nominee for one of the two major parties is a big deal and so just seeing Oakland represented in that kind of positive way is something that I'm excited about,' Adia Harrison said.
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