2001 NBA No. 1 pick calls out Black celebrity 'gatekeepers' for 'shaming' voters to choose Kamala Harris
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Former NBA player Kwame Brown, the No. 1 overall pick of the 2001 NBA Draft, shared a rant Monday afternoon in which he said he believes Black celebrity "gatekeepers" are "shaming" people into voting for Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States.
He also told viewers that Harris won’t be "paying nobody’s bills with your skin color."
Brown, who played 13 seasons in the NBA, went on for almost five minutes, calling out comedian and host Rickey Smiley, who recently called out Black social media users who didn’t support Harris.
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Kwame Brown of the Philadelphia 76ers at American Airlines Center Dec. 18, 2012, in Dallas, Texas. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
"Any time you have a man jump on TV, or jump on his radio show, and coerce or tell his followers to follow or unfollow Black people that don’t like Kamala … What if the Black people were voting for [independent presidential candidate] Cornel West? Oh, that don’t fit his narrative," Brown said.
Then, Brown began to point out how "inflation is at an all-time high," and he doesn’t believe Harris is going to fix that for Black Americans.
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"When you talk about real situations, people are not concerned with somebody being Black or not," Brown said. "You’re not paying nobody’s bills with your skin color. Kamala Harris is not going to help get your bills paid just ‘cause she’s Black."
Brown went on to call the likes of Smiley, comedian D.L. Hughley and Steve Harvey the "go-along-get-along gang," implying they support