NBA celebrity LeBron James endorsed Kamala Harris within the US Presidential elections by way of social media submit on Thursday.
James shared a video on Instagram and X, the video opens with comic Tony Hinchcliffe aka Kill Tony remarks from Trump’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally earlier this week.
Within the video, Tony is seen making a racist joke about him and a Black pal carving “watermelons collectively.” The video additional follows Trump’s assertion saying, “No, I’m not a racist.”
He wrote on his social media handles, “What are we even speaking about right here?? After I take into consideration my children and my household and the way they’ll develop up, the selection is evident to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!”
The video additionally options different headlines that stated Trump spewed “nazi rhetoric” and clips of African People being assaulted. James additionally posted a video that spliced collectively civil rights protests and abuses from a number of many years with feedback by Trump and photographs from the previous president’s latest rally at Madison Sq. Backyard. The video made the argument that Trump is racist and ended with the written quote: “Hate takes us again.”
James is not any stranger to enjoying a job in presidential politics, having fashioned the group Extra Than a Vote in 2020 in response to the racial turmoil and reckoning following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
James endorsed Joe Biden in the course of the 2020 election and Hillary Clinton in 2016.