Golden State Warriors veteran ahead Draymond Inexperienced has declared his assist for Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat’s nominee within the 2024 U.S. presidential election race in opposition to Republican nominee Donald Trump.
“Sending all my love and assist to our VP, Kamala Harris. Good luck in your race,” Inexperienced mentioned Sunday throughout his “The Draymond Inexperienced Present” YouTube podcast.
“It’s the race of a lifetime. You achieved it, now go to be nice. Be nice on the marketing campaign path, be nice within the debates, be nice in your race to historical past.”
Draymond Inexperienced, 34, praised Harris for her achievements and criticized those that query her race and ethnicity. The four-time NBA champ particularly addressed the criticism that Harris will not be African American as a consequence of her combined heritage.
Harris, who was born in Oakland, California, to immigrant dad and mom, has confronted scrutiny over her ethnicity regardless of being the primary Asian American, Black, and feminine vp in U.S. historical past.
Draymond Inexperienced helps Kamala Harris, who might grow to be the primary feminine president in U.S. historical past
“Your path for a younger black woman to see, ‘Wow, I can run for president,’ that’s superb. I acquired three daughters, for them to simply have the concept of, ‘Wow, I might run for president in the future,’ that’s what she’s doing. That’s unbelievable,” Inexperienced added.
“To offer that hope to younger Black and Brown ladies all over the world that you may presumably run for president in the future too, man, that’s completely different. That’s completely different. And so they attempt to say you’re not Black. I don’t assume each younger Black woman who’s watching her thinks that. I feel they see her like, ‘Wow, wow, that’s me.’ And the way superb is that?”
The NBA veteran grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, and he performed school basketball for the Michigan State Spartans, serving to them earn two Ultimate 4 appearances and a Huge Ten event championship in 2012.
“Rising up in America as a younger Black man, it ain’t straightforward. It isn’t straightforward rising up in America as a younger Black man,” Draymond Inexperienced mentioned. “And I keep in mind sitting within the workplace with my dad. I grew up having seizures, and I used to have these month-to-month checkups. Each couple of months, I must go to my neurologist.
“I used to be trying within the journal and I requested my dad, ‘Do you ever assume we’ll have a girl president?’ and he mentioned, ‘Not in my lifetime.’ I boohoo cried in that workplace as a result of that was the primary time I had processed, like, ‘Rattling, my dad goes to die in some unspecified time in the future.’”
Kamala Harris, who turns 60 on Oct. 20, is aiming to grow to be the primary feminine U.S. president in historical past.
