Beyoncé delivers emotive, joyful speech at Kamala Harris' Houston rally: 'I'm here as a mother'

Beyoncé has spoken astatine a Houston rally for Kamala Harris’ statesmanlike campaign, telling nan crowd: “I’m not present arsenic a celebrity, I’m not present arsenic a politician

“I’m not present arsenic a celebrity, I’m not present arsenic a politician. I’m present arsenic a mother,” Beyoncé said astatine a Houston rally for Kamala Harris' statesmanlike run Friday night. “A mother who cares profoundly astir nan world my children and each of our children unrecorded in, a world wherever we person nan state to power our bodies, a world wherever we’re not divided.”

“Imagine our daughters increasing up seeing what’s imaginable pinch nary ceilings, nary limitations," she continued. “We must vote, and we request you.”

At nan end, Beyoncé — who was joined onstage by her Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland — introduced Harris with, “Ladies and gentlemen, please springiness a big, loud, Texas invited to nan adjacent president of nan United States, Vice President Kamala Harris.”

She did not execute — dissimilar successful 2016, when she performed astatine a statesmanlike run rally for Hilary Clinton successful Cleveland.

Houston is Beyoncé's hometown, and Harris’ statesmanlike run has taken connected Beyonce’s 2016 way “Freedom,” a trim from her landmark 2016 medium “Lemonade," arsenic its anthem.

Harris first utilized nan song successful July during her first charismatic nationalist quality arsenic a statesmanlike campaigner astatine her run office successful Delaware. That aforesaid month, Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, publically endorsed Harris for president.

Beyoncé gave support to Harris to usage nan song, a run charismatic who was granted anonymity to talk backstage run operations confirmed to The Associated Press.

Arriving successful nan back-half of “Lemonade,” “Freedom” samples 2 John and Alan Lomax section recordings, which archive Jim Crow-era people spirituals of Southern Black churches and nan activity songs of Black prisoners from 1959 and 1948, respectively. It besides features Pulitzer Prize victor Kendrick Lamar.

Kinitra D. Brooks, an world and writer of “The Lemonade Reader,” says nan opus “‘Freedom" is truthful important because it shows that state isn’t free. The state to beryllium yourself, nan governmental state ... it’s nan thought that you must conflict for freedom, and that it is winnable."

The Harris rally successful Houston highlighted the perilous aesculapian fallout from nan state’s strict abortion ban and putting nan blasted squarely connected Donald Trump.

Since abortion was restricted successful Texas, nan state’s infant decease complaint has increased, much babies person died of commencement defects and maternal mortality has risen.