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T.I. Warns Of ‘Hidden Agenda’ Behind Trump’s Meetings With Black Influencers
The Huffington Post's Black Voices ^ | January 18, 2017 | Brennan Williams, pop culture editor

Posted on 01/18/2017 12:08:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

T.I. has issued a stern warning to his celebrity peers meeting with Trump: “Do not accept any invitation to have any meeting... No matter how positive you think the outcome may be.”

On Monday, T.I. shared his two cents on the matter in a series of Instagram video posts explaining his theory on the Trump administration’s “strategic plan” to help normalize the president-elect.

“They see how adamantly against [Trump] being president the hip-hop community and the young black people was in America,” he said. “So what did they do? They get Kanye West to come in. Well, surely, ‘if you take a picture with him, he smiles and says he’s cool with it, they’ll fall right in line. Also, you got black women they were against it, ‘well, who speaks to the black women? Steve Harvey. Let’s get him in here, he’ll take a picture he’ll smile. He’ll say it’s cool. They’ll fall right in line.’ ”

T.I. ― whose sentiments echoed those of DL. Hughley on the topic ― cited visits from Jim Brown, Ray Lewis and Monday’s visit by Martin Luther King Jr.’s son, Martin Luther King III as other examples of the Trump administration using black entertainers as a ploy to gain black supporters....

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2020; blacks; guavacheesepuff; hiphop; music; rap; ti; trump
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

>>T.I. is an internationally known rapper. He’s good. I like his music.<<

That is definitionally impossible.

In no way, shape or form is “rap” = “music.” At best it is street poetry. At its normal it is just syncopated “kill whitey.”


21 posted on 01/18/2017 12:24:55 PM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo: not just the worst president in American history - worst *American* in American history (turf)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

TI means what? Texas Instruments? All this cutesy acronym bullshit is getting tiresome.


22 posted on 01/18/2017 12:35:02 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: BipolarBob

Thread Idiocy.


23 posted on 01/18/2017 12:35:51 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: freedumb2003

No rap is better than Grade C rap...


24 posted on 01/18/2017 12:38:35 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Looks like Texas Instruments and the Bureau of Land Management are teaming up, but for what? LOL


25 posted on 01/18/2017 12:40:23 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So? Why wouldn’t a group of people want to work with any president? You may have to work on other items on your wish list, but it is a sign of bad leadership to not work at all with an administration.


26 posted on 01/18/2017 12:42:16 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: BlueLancer

Would he be referring to parts below? But I digress.


27 posted on 01/18/2017 1:06:02 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of CS paid is inversely proportionate to Mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Cobra64
Thread Idiocy.

Well, we are talking about a rapper.

28 posted on 01/18/2017 1:13:10 PM PST by BipolarBob (I thought money was burning a hole in my pocket but it was just my Samsung Galaxy 7.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

T.I.? Tom Izzo? WTH has Michigan State got to do with this?

CC


29 posted on 01/18/2017 1:20:35 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...examples of the Trump administration using black entertainers as a ploy to gain black supporters...

And Democrats would never do anything like that.

30 posted on 01/18/2017 1:23:03 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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Idiot

31 posted on 01/18/2017 2:17:34 PM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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To: Jim 0216
Who the freak is T.I. and why should I care what T.I. says?

Another rapper whose 15 minutes of fame are winding down.

32 posted on 01/18/2017 2:32:57 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
TI?

I used to have one of their computers. Always preferred their calculators to HP.

33 posted on 01/18/2017 2:35:28 PM PST by NorthMountain (Washington Post is Fake News)
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To: Cobra64

Some of his music is good. Other than that, it’s crazy songs.


34 posted on 01/18/2017 3:35:24 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
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