{"id":52916,"date":"2020-12-26T18:26:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T23:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=52916"},"modified":"2020-12-26T22:14:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T03:14:37","slug":"harris-lauds-state-rep-shirley-weber-established-africana-studies-professor-as-newsoms-secretary-of-state-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-lauds-state-rep-shirley-weber-established-africana-studies-professor-as-newsoms-secretary-of-state-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Lauds State Rep. Shirley Weber, Established Africana Studies Professor, As Newsom\u2019s Secretary Of State Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharris-lauds-state-rep-shirley-weber-established-africana-studies-professor-as-newsoms-secretary-of-state-pick%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=52916&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) lauded Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s (D) decision to appoint State Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D), 72, a decades-long professor of Africana Studies at San Diego State University, to serve as the next California Secretary of State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnother historic moment for California:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Assemblymember Shirley Weber], a tireless fighter for justice and civil rights, will be the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State. And she certainly won\u2019t be the last. Congratulations,\u201d tweeted Harris.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another historic moment for California: @AsmShirleyWeber, a tireless fighter for justice and civil rights, will be the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State.\u00a0And she certainly won&#39;t be the last. Congratulations! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DNbPlmFobl\">https:\/\/t.co\/DNbPlmFobl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP\/status\/1341873916902436864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Newsom selected Weber for the California Secretary of State position after choosing Alex Padilla, a long-time ally and his current secretary of state, as his choice to succeed Harris in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An SDSU professor turned-politician, Weber has been a member of the Africana studies department since its foundation in 1972. She has also been \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recognized nationally and internationally for her ground breaking work to establish the discipline of Africana Studies,\u201d according to a short biography on the Africana Studies <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/africana.sdsu.edu\/our-faculty\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">department\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Africana studies is one of four fields that comprise ethnic studies, which is often falsely mistaken as a branch of history. But in the words of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.sfsu.edu\/content\/about-college-ethnic-studies\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco State University<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the birthplace of ethnic studies, the field is actually oriented toward redefining \u201cthe lives of people of color from their own perspectives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a member of the California Assembly, Weber spearheaded the effort to establish an ethnic studies requirement in the California State University system, which contains 23 schools attended by hundreds of thousands of students every year. Students must meet the requirement with a \u201ccore\u201d ethnic studies course, which limits them to four fields: Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Latino Studies, and Native American Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weber also authored recent legislation that led the California <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/california-governor-gavin-newsom-launches-task-force-to-study-slavery-reparations\">governor to establish a task force to study slavery<\/a> and the potential for reparations. (California outlawed slavery in 1849, before becoming a state. The Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-09-30\/california-task-force-reparations-slavery-gavin-newsom-shirley-weber\">reports<\/a> the slavery continued for some time but does not provide figures or estimates as to how extensive it was).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California has historically led the country on civil rights, yet we have not come to terms with our state\u2019s ugly past that allowed slaveholding within our borders and returned escaped slaves to their masters,\u201d said Weber at the time, as The Daily Wire previously reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Secretary of State position, said Weber on Wednesday, presents \u201ctremendous opportunities\u201d to continue the state\u2019s legacy \u201cin these very difficult times when people are challenging the right to vote, challenging our system itself, and trying to destroy our Democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have to have folks who believe in it, we have to have folks who stand up for it. My history, and my family, knows what it is like when people deny you that right. They know what happens when people challenge the fairness and the transparency of systems. My family has lived that, and so for me, I\u2019m always the person who looks at every aspect of freedom and justice,\u201d said Weber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) lauded Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s (D) decision to appoint State Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D), 72, a decades-long professor of Africana Studies at San Diego State University, to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}