Kamala Harris: “I’m Not Into Telling You I Told You So, But We Did See It Coming”
Former Vice President Kamala Harris said at the memorial for Jesse Jackson on Friday that she “predicted a lot of what’s happening right now.”
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Good afternoon, good afternoon everyone. Mrs. Jackie and to the entire Jackson family, on behalf of Doug and my family, we we pray with you as we did a couple weeks ago in your home and we thank you, I thank you. You know, so let me just say I predicted a lot about what’s happening right now. I’m not into saying I told you so, but we did see it coming. But what I did not predict is that we would not have Jesse Jackson with us right now to help us get through this. And this afternoon has been such a beautiful remembrance of his spirit, his life, and his faith. And in a way that Reverend Al talked about it and so many others have, I do think of this afternoon as what it is doing for me to renew my faith in what is possible, fueled by the hope that Jesse Jackson so often reminded us of. I’m reminded of a passage in Matthew 7:7: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” And so from a young age we know that Reverend Jackson saw that the doors had been closed to the millions of people across our nation and throughout the world who were otherwise so deserving. And they were doors of course to opportunity, to equity, to justice, to freedom. And so he dedicated his life as we all know to breaking down those barriers. So when we are speaking of these doors I will share with you that as a child I was raised that when you see a closed door you must knock and wait to be invited in. What life has taught me is that if that invitation is not offered and if that door remains shut even after repeated attempts to knock on said door, sometimes you have no choice but just to kick that door open.
