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 towards Republican nominee Donald Trump.
“Sending all my love and assist 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 is just not 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 vice chairman in U.S. historical past.
Draymond Inexperienced helps Kamala Harris, who may change into 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 wonderful. I received three daughters, for them to only have the thought of, ‘Wow, I may run for president someday,’ 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 possibly can presumably run for president someday too, man, that’s totally different. That’s totally different. And so they attempt to say you’re not Black. I don’t suppose each younger Black lady who’s watching her thinks that. I feel they see her like, ‘Wow, wow, that’s me.’ And the way wonderful 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 Last 4 appearances and a Large 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 bear 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 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 sooner or later.’”
Kamala Harris, who turns 60 on Oct. 20, is aiming to change into the primary feminine U.S. president in historical past.
