The path of progress

Today is Martin Luther King Day and Kamala Harris resigned her seat in the United States senate at noon for the best of reasons: in two days she will be sworn in as the first female, African American and Asian American Vice President of the United States. Her resignation leaves the United States Senate without any Black female senators.
The first Black female senator was Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, who held the position for six years, leaving in January of 1999.  Then there was a 18 year gap until Senator Harris was elected.
I think that this is what progress most often looks like. There are gaps and spaces followed by unimaginable leaps. And on this day, where we celebrate a man who gave his life preaching about dreams of unimaginable leaps, my hope is that the gap between Senator Harris' departure from the senate and the election of the next female Black senator is measured in days, not decades.