Vice President Kamala Harris was roasted over the weekend for a cringey cameo at the BET Awards. Harris appeared in a pre-recorded skit featuring host Taraji P. Henson.
“Madam VP Harris, I’m worried about the election. Women’s reproductive rights are on the line, our Supreme Court is on the line, our basic freedoms are being tested. Madam VP, I know you’ve been traveling across the country,” Henson said. “What are you hearing?”
“Yeah girl, I’m out here in these streets. And let me tell you, you’re right, Taraji. There is so much at stake in this moment. The majority of us believe in freedom and equality. But these extremists, as they say, they not like us,” Harris said, referencing Kendrick Lamar’s popular song “Not Like Us.”
“There is a full-on attack on our fundamental freedoms, the freedom to vote, the freedom to love who you love, the freedom to be safe from gun violence, the freedom for a woman to make decisions about her own body, not having her government tell her what to do,” Harris continued.
“They out here trying to take away Pride, Plan B, and Planned Parenthood, but protecting pistols. If you ask me, they pushing the wrong Ps,” Henson said.
Harris responded, “They want to turn back the clock on our hard-fought progress.”
After Henson asked what could be done about it, Harris said “We will do what we’ve always done. Fight for our freedoms. But here’s the thing, we cannot fight alone. We need to get our families, our friends, co-workers, cousins, play cousins, aunties and uncles, get all of them to register to vote. That’s why I’ve been so busy, trying to make sure everyone is registered to vote and that they head to the ballot box on November 5.”
Watch the clip above.
Harris’ skit was roasted on X, where many commented on her obvious pandering and the cringey dialogue.
Elon Musk posted on X that the skit was “Toenail curling level of cringe.”
Citizen Free Press posted, “Kamala panders at BET awards and the reviews are not positive. Black Americans are embarrassed by Kamala.”
Out here in these streets?
You have a security detail???? You live in the Naval Observatory???
This is disgusting. https://t.co/LOJf7eBbTl
— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) July 1, 2024
How is not considered wildly offensive to have Kamala so blatantly put on a "blackcent" when speaking to BET like this? https://t.co/FmgHNJWOdS
— Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️🏳️🌈 (@brad_polumbo) July 1, 2024
Lmao we haven't heard from Kamala in dang near 4 years and now she wants to pander to us on the BET Awards?! 😭😭😭 https://t.co/rrl283LDwR
— alaina nicole (@hotlaina_) July 1, 2024
Kamala saying “I be out here in these streets” and “they not like us” during this BET Awards commercial has me soooooo sick for the election 😖
— heran mamo / ሄራን ማሞ (@heranmamo) July 1, 2024
[h/t Fox News]
