Golden State Warriors veteran ahead Draymond Inexperienced has declared his help 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 help to our VP, Kamala Harris. Good luck in your race,” Inexperienced stated 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 mother and father, has confronted scrutiny over her ethnicity regardless of being the primary Asian American, Black, and feminine vice chairman 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 lady to see, ‘Wow, I can run for president,’ that’s superb. I bought three daughters, for them to only have the thought of, ‘Wow, I might run for president sooner or later,’ that’s what she’s doing. That’s unbelievable,” Inexperienced added.
“To present that hope to younger Black and Brown women all over the world that you may presumably run for president sooner or later too, man, that’s completely different. That’s completely different. They usually attempt to say you’re not Black. I don’t suppose each younger Black lady who’s watching her thinks that. I believe 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 faculty basketball for the Michigan State Spartans, serving to them earn two Ultimate 4 appearances and a Huge Ten match championship in 2012.
“Rising up in America as a younger Black man, it ain’t simple. It’s not simple rising up in America as a younger Black man,” Draymond Inexperienced stated. “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 suppose we’ll have a lady president?’ and he stated, ‘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.
