EVEN IF I have substantial policy disagreements with Kamala Harris, we need women of color in leadership in the highest positions in our country because the imaginarium of power cannot picture an uncontrolled woman of color exercising executive authority. As CEO, as governor of states like Georgia, as POTUS: the USA and the people who exercise outsize influence upon it due to their wealth and station fear the uncontrolled Black woman, fear the uncontrolled indigenous woman.

This not only limits who can occupy certain offices, but it also affects law and policy since the powerful cannot conceive of the uncontrolled woman of color, laws and policies are crafted to blunt power, to restrict autonomy.

If Kamala Harris did nothing else as president but shepherded the country through 4 relatively uneventful years with no notable successes and few to no notable failures -- going down as the 30th or 35th best president in US history -- she would still be valuable to all of us because, as with Barack Obama, the mere fact of her exercising power without destroying the country will soften racist fears, and beyond Obama soften sexist fears as well. A Harris presidency will reshape the imaginarium of power.

But beyond this, I do agree with many of her policies. So for the next 4 years I want Harris as my president to do what she can and do what she believes is right and for us as a nation to watch her using that power, building with her own hands. I want this not only because she will be much better over those 4 years than Trump has any hope of being, but also because should she serve even just 4 years, she makes even more possible in future elections, in future presidencies.

Go grab that ring, Kamala. My hopes go with you.