Quavo Saluted By VP Kamala Harris For ‘Courage’ & ‘Leadership’
Quavo‘s character obtained a glowing overview from Vice President Kamala Harris pursuing their hearth chat on gun violence.
The assembly took put at the inaugural Rocket Basis Summit in Atlanta on Tuesday (June 18). This was a considerable day for the former Migos rapper as he honored his late nephew and groupmate TakeOff on what would have been his 30th birthday.
In an X (formerly Twitter) posted after the summit, the politician wrote: “I joined @QuavoStuntin for the 1st-at any time Rocket Foundation Summit on Gun Violence Prevention. Quavo: Thank you for your braveness, leadership, and for bringing us jointly for this vital conversation. With each other, we proceed our do the job to preserve lives and retain our communities harmless.”
She also shared a online video from explained collecting, which can be viewed under:
I joined @QuavoStuntin for the 1st-ever Rocket Foundation Summit on Gun Violence Prevention.
Quavo: Thank you for your bravery, management, and for bringing us jointly for this essential dialogue. Jointly, we keep on our operate to help save lives and retain our communities protected. pic.twitter.com/VTVxur4tzK
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) June 19, 2024
This is not the initially time Quavo and Harris have satisfied up to tackle the aforementioned concern. In September, Huncho, his mom and TakeOff’s mother frequented the White Dwelling to meet with the 59-12 months-earlier to concentrate on the worsening difficulty that ultimately took TakeOff’s existence.
“I feel like your calling arrives at the the very least anticipated instances,” Quavo explained to the AP following the conference.
“You do not believe nothing is going to come about. I will need to move up to the plate and hit a homerun,” he continued. “I have to do one thing about it, so it won’t happen to the masses — particularly in our culture. I don’t want this to materialize to the future individual. I want to knock down these percentages.
“We need to do much better with the management of guns. We need to have to determine out how do we continue to keep these types of incidents from occurring to men and women heading any place and thinking they can damage any person where by it shouldn’t transpire.”
Just right after their meeting, Harris took to Instagram to thank the “Walk It Converse It” hitmaker and his family members members members for coming to the White Residence.
“Thank you @quavohuncho, Edna, and Titania for using your voices to honor TakeOff’s legacy and contact for action to prevent gun violence,” she pointed out.
In addition, Quavo also participated in a panel discussion with Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, Agent Lucy McBath and Greg Jackson of the Group Justice Motion Fund. The dialogue was centered on group intervention techniques, the difficulty of gun violence by itself and the energy in advocacy.