Oh alright, alright alright
settle down settle down.
I am at a loss for words for
the first time in my life.
You know? I love you too.
I am here. Yes, right?
Rankor
motivated, dedicated.
So. I'm I'm here because of you.
I'm here because you voted for me.
I'm here because you put
your trust in me. That's the
only reason I'm here. Thank
you, thank you.
That my speech.
I want to introduce to
you my husband Terrance.
He's another marine.
My daughter coccia
and my other daughter Janelle.
I'm telling you. That what you are
looking at is the American dream.
The American dream.
When my father came to this country.
August 11th of 1963.
He came at the height of the civil
rights movement from Jamaica.
He came and I said to him,
but it was such a bad time for us.
Why did you come in?
He said, because America was where
the jobs and the opportunities were.
And he only came with $1.75.
$1.75 took any job he could find and
he put himself through school and
started his American dream and then yes.
And now he's comfortably retired.
And then he came and got me
when I was six years old,
and when I stepped on that Panam,
Boeing 737 and landed at JFK,
I landed in a new world.
And so let me tell you this.
I am not even first generation American.
When I joined the Marine Core,
I was still a Jamaican,
but this country had done so
much for me. I was willing,
willing to die for this country.
Second USA.
And and so I say to you.
Victory indeed, but I say to you.
There are some who want to divide
us and we must not let that happen.
They would like us to believe we are
back in 1963 when my father came.
We can live where we want.
We can eat where we want.
We own the water fountains.
We have had a black president
elected not once but twice.
And here I am living proof.
Second,
in case you haven't noticed,
I am black and I have been black
all my life.
But that's not what this is about.
What we are going to do is we
are going to now be about the
business of the Commonwealth.
We have things to tend to.
We are going to fully fund our historically
black colleges and universities.
You're gonna hear from your governor elect.
Glenn youngkin
and he's got a day one plan
that I'm already tired about.
Don't know how we're going
to make it today too.
But he's going to make sure we
keep more of our money in our
pockets because he's going to
get rid of all kinds of taxes.
We're gonna have safer neighborhoods,
safer communities,
and our children are going
to get a good education.
Because education lifted
my father out of poverty,
education lifted me out of poverty.
Education will lift us all out of
poverty because we we must have
marketable skills so that our
children can not just survive,
but they will thrive and they
will create generational wealth.
That's what this is about.
I'm gonna finish up. We love you too.
It's a historic night. Yes it is.
But I didn't run to make history.
I just wanted to leave it
better than I found it.
And with your help,
we're going to do that.
We're going to have
transparent government.
And as I used to say,
as we were on the trail
hold on Virginia,
help is on the way. The
cavalry has arrived. Thank you.
God bless you.
And finally.
Wanna thank my staff 'cause I
couldn't have done it without them.
We were a ragtag bunch of people.
We ran an impossible improbable campaign
against God was exactly with us,
otherwise we would never have made it,
and so I want to finish up by thanking you,
Jesus, how sweet it is.