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 is just not African American attributable to her blended 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 may 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 bought three daughters, for them to simply have the concept of, ‘Wow, I may 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 around the globe that you might presumably run for president sooner or later too, man, that’s completely different. That’s completely different. And so they attempt to say you’re not Black. I don’t suppose each younger Black woman 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 Closing 4 appearances and a Massive 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 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 suppose 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.
