Kwame Brown, the number-one overall draft pick in the 2001 NBA draft, recently sounded off on Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Brown also called out black celebrity “gatekeepers,” who he suggests are “shaming” voters into supporting Harris because of the color of her skin. The former professional basketball player pointed out that Harris’ ethnicity won’t do anything to fix the state of America.
Speaking about the state of the economy, where historically high inflation has impacted Americans throughout the Biden-Harris administration, Brown stated, “Kamala’s skin color ain’t gonna pay for our groceries.” He further pointed out that Harris has led many initiatives for the Asian community, but has seemingly turned her back on the black community.
“When you talk about real situations, people are not concerned with somebody being black or not. You’re not paying nobody’s bills with your skin color. Kamala Harris is not going to help get your bills paid just cuz she’s black,” Brown continued in his monologue.
The former basketball star specifically called out prominent figures in black entertainment, such as Ricky Smiley, DL Hughley, and Steve Harvey, for “gatekeeping.” He added, “Inflation is at an all-time high. And when you go and look at the politicians – and this is what’s said about Ricky Smiley, DL Hughley, Steve Harvey, is that nobody calls these gatekeepers out.”
Smiley recently made comments blasting Black people on the internet who had voiced their disdain for Vice President Harris. “I’m just sick of the Black people on the internet talking about, ’I’m not with [Ms. Harris].’ OK, so if you’re not with her, that means you’re with Trump. Y’all need to block every last one of their asses on Facebook and on Instagram and social media — and stop. That’s just garbage,” Smiley said during his radio show.
The American Tribune recently reported on a word salad Kamala Harris gave while trying to articulate how her economic policies would be funded. “Can you explain how you’re going to pay for those, and can you give us a sense of what other policies we want to unveil?” Harris was asked by a reporter.
The vice president responded, “I mean, you just look at it in terms of what we are talking about, for example, around children and the child tax credit and extending the EITC that it’s at $6,000 for the first year of a child’s life. The return on that investment, in terms of what that will do and what it will pay for, will be tremendous.”
Harris then spoke about child poverty and housing in America. “We’ve seen it when we did it the first year of our administration reduced, we reduced child poverty by over 50% so that’s a lot of the work. And then what we’re doing in terms of the tax credits, we know that there’s a great return on investment. And when we increase home ownership in America, what that means in terms of increasing the tax base, not to mention property tax base, what that does to fund schools, again, return on investment,” she said.
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