You may inform the presidential election is admittedly heating up when the White Home dispatches Vice President Kamala Harris to do some awards present politicking. On Sunday night time (June 30), Harris made a shock look in the course of the 2024 BET Awards in a pre-taped bit paid for by the Biden/Harris marketing campaign by which she sis’d down with fellow Howard College alum and awards present host Taraji P. Henson.
The 2 spoke to one another on FaceTime, with Henson dialing in from backstage and Harris showing to attach from her residence as they chopped it up in regards to the HBCU they each attended and Henson confessed to being concerned in regards to the upcoming presidential election. “Girls’s reproductive rights are on the road, our Supreme Court docket is on the road,” Henson mentioned. “Our primary freedoms are being examined Madame VP! I do know you’ve been touring throughout the nation, what have you ever been listening to,” the Colour Purple star added.
“Yeah, woman I’m out right here in these streets, and let me inform you — you’re proper, Taraji, there may be a lot at stake on this second,” Harris assured her. “The vast majority of us consider in freedom and equality. However these extremists, as they are saying — they ‘not like us.’”
“No, they not,” Henson mentioned in response to Harris dropping the title of the latest Kendrick Lamar Drake diss observe that debuted at No. 1 on the Scorching 100.
Persevering with the Biden/Harris marketing campaign’s assault line that former president Donald Trump and his Republican followers are a risk to American democracy, Harris added, “There’s a full-on assault on our basic freedoms, the liberty to vote, the liberty to like who you’re keen on, the liberty to be secure from gun violence, the liberty for a girl to make selections about her personal physique and never having her authorities inform her what to do.”
Elsewhere, Henson very adamantly urged the group to maintain their eye on the ball. “Its’ time for us to play chess, not checkers. It’s about making selections that can have an effect on us as human beings… out careers, our subsequent generations to come back,” she mentioned, referring to a just-announced Supreme Court docket ruling that enforces bans on sleeping outside that some have mentioned is tantamount to criminalizing homelessness.
“Concentrate, it’s not a secret,” Henson mentioned. “Look it up. They’re attacking our most weak residents. The Mission 2025 plan shouldn’t be a sport. Look it up,” she added vehemently in regards to the conservative presidential transition challenge in place to radically reshape the U.S. authorities in a vogue that some have mentioned has authoritarian overtones.
Henson additionally paid tribute to “Not Like Us” elsewhere within the present when she dressed up as Ok-Dot and carried out verses with BET-specific lyrics as her dancers mimicked the strikes of Kendrick’s dancers from his latest Pop Out live performance.
The looks by Harris got here simply days after what was extensively considered as a poor efficiency by Biden throughout his first debate with convicted felon Trump, throughout with the president appeared confused and meandering at instances.
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