Dr. Umar Johnson is the latest public figure to expose Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for paying influencers to interview the candidate.
Umar criticized radio hosts Steve Harvey and Rickey Smiley for taking money from the Harris campaign to “shame Black people into voting.”
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Dr. Umar said the Harris campaign approached him with an offer of $10,000 to do an interview with Harris.
“Black vote ain’t for sale no more,” Umar said in a livestream video. “Black vote ain’t for sale. We bartering on business. We standing on business. Bring us some tangibles or get out of my face.”
Umar chastised syndicated radio host Rickey Smiley for crying on the radio in support of Harris.
“Rickey Smiley, I love you, but crying on the radio for Kamala Harris, my brother, that’s an all-time low,” Umar said. “Don’t do that again Rickey Smiley. Don’t you get on your radio show and cry for Kamala.”
Umar continued: “If you wanna cry for Kabama Harris [sic]… You do that in the privacy of your house.”
Then Umar turned his attention to Steve Harvey who went viral for telling Black people to shut up and vote. (Click here if you missed that story.)
Umar said Steve Harvey and Rickey Smiley only support Harris because they’re getting paid.
“Y’all only carried on ’cause y’all got paid to carry on,” he said. “Kamala Harris and the Democratic plantation is paying you celebrities – paying you to shame Black people into voting. Y’all know we not gonna get nothing out of that vote… But they’re being paid – y’all being bought!”
Umar said the Harris camp offered him $10,000 for an interview with Harris, but he declined.
“I don’t want your money, but we can definitely do the interview,” he said. “Yes we can do the interview. Keep your damn money. King Kong Konsciousness ain’t for sale. I’m one of the real ones. Silverback Garvey gorilla… Don’t come to me with no propositions for money. I don’t live for no money. I’m not one of these goofy ass rappers whose whole life is nothing but what you can buy and own. You dealing with real African DNA. This is real ancestral energy over here. I’m not no Rickey Smiley, Steve Harvey. You don’t drop no check off and say get the Negroes to the plantation on November the 4th.”
Dr. Umar also provided text messages from the Harris campaign to validate his claim.
Watch the video below.
??BREAKING NEWS: Civil Rights activist Dr. Umar Rashad Ibn Abdullah-Johnson announced that Kamala Harris’s team offered him $10,000 for an interview with Kamala Harris.
Dr. Umar also uploaded text messages proving his claim and says Kamala Harris’s team is also paying Rickey… pic.twitter.com/z8njeuKDBw
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) August 15, 2024
