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Harris' Videographer speaks out, and it's wonderful. [1]
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Date: 2025-01-22
Azza Cohen was the official videographer for Kamala Harris. She spent nearly every day with her, capturing the Vice President being, well, Vice Presidential. And on Monday, January 20, she penned an article about her experiences for Slate. It will make you feel...feelings. Maybe glee, maybe mad, likely both. I’ll link to it at the end (it’s not behind a paywall), but here are two quotes for a taste of what it was like working for the first female Vice President
I Was Kamala Harris’ Videographer. The Experience Completely Changed Me.
As a filmmaker, this was a dream: filming history in action, documenting the first woman to serve in this role. And even though my heart is broken that she lost the election, and I was continuously enraged by the ways sexism and racism made everything harder for her, something unexpected happened to me on the job: I witnessed Harris’ impact, and it began to change me.
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Vice President Harris never called a little girl cute or commented on her outfit; instead, she’d say, “You look like the smartest person in your class.” The vice president would say, “Let me hear you say, ‘I am a leader,’ ” and even the youngest girls would say it back. I filmed hundreds of clips of Kamala Harris telling young people to believe in themselves because they can achieve anything. And I noticed myself changing my conversations with my nieces, stopping myself from commenting on their outfits and asking instead about the thoughts in their heads. One time, I needed the vice president to redo a line for a video, and I started out by apologizing, saying, “Ma’am, I’m so sorry, just one more time” before she interrupted me, “Don’t apologize for doing your job well.” From then on, whenever my instinct was to minimize myself, I would consider what my boss had told—and showed—me.
Do yourself a solid and go to this link and read the whole thing. It will take about 5 minutes and it will remind you of what decency looks and acts like. It will be in small supply going forward, so bookmark this link and return to when you need a whiff of goodness.
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