On Thursday night at a ‘virtual’ rally in Oakland County, Michigan, television personality and businesswoman Oprah Winfrey took to the stage to campaign for vice president Kamala Harris’s presidential bid.
Addressing potential supporters, Winfrey noted, “To all of you I just want to say who are on the sidelines and still making up their minds to even if you are independent like me or just don’t know what you are going to do, this is the time for all those people who care about themselves and about others and want the world to bewelfare for everybody. This is the time for those who have actually had enough of all the back and forth and the mudslinging scandals trying to outdo each other and all the nonsense and the fabricated stories and theories. This is how far you have to go because you know the truth and you know that we can do better than we are now and that we deserve better than what we get.”
Referring to her friend and mentor Maya Angelou, she called on the audience to improve and support Kamala Harris. “I know you would know this, I know you do know this, I know you feel this. I know this is what you all are whispering people tell each other. We are not like this. And as my friend and teacher Maya Angelou used to say ‘If you know better, do better’. Let us do better and vote for Kamala Harris,” Oprah noted.
Winfrey called out especially to those of them who were still hesitating. “We have come all of us for one objective, `Lets come out and vote’,” she declared. “This election is more than just rising to the occasion — it is fighting for our core beliefs.”
As part of the event, Harris jokingly said “If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot” when Winfrey spoke of her gun ownership, “I am always armed, you know”. “I guess I shouldn’t have said it. My staff will sort it out afterwards,” Harris quipped as well.
There was another star-studded appearance, with Chris Rock, Jennifer Lopez and even Bryan Cranston appearing emerged in the event held virtually.
The sexual abuse which the victims or the family of the victims have suffered comes with the horrific swoop of destruction. Natalie Griffith, a school shooting victim herself, shared, in her own capacity, her ordeal but also joined forces with Winfrey calling for actions. “This is not normal, y’all and it’s not okay. I believe as Americans we can do better,” she voiced.
Many of the participants left luminously charged for the coming elections following the rally which lasted an hour and half. As Trisha Valentine captured the mood of all “it’s now or never. I want it to be tremendous, I want it be impossible for it to be any other way I want it to be a mad sweep”.
Last month, she also took the podium on behalf of Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention which took place in the city of Chicago.
