Posted on 04/16/2016 8:51:39 AM PDT by PROCON
President Obama hosted some of hip-hops biggest stars for a meeting at the White House on Friday.
According to a White House official Nicki Minaj, Chance the Rapper, Alicia Keys, Wale, J. Cole, and Ludacris were among the stars who sat down with Obama and some of his top advisers to talk about criminal justice reform and the My Brothers Keeper Initiative. An official says the stars were singled out due to their work within communities to confront issues facing young people.
Through their own nonprofit work or artistic commitment, many of these artists have found ways to engage on the issues of criminal justice reform and empowering disadvantaged young people across the country, an official says.
A source close to the White House says DJ Khaled is also attending the meeting.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
The Westies were bad-ass but did a lot of dirty work for other bigger, more sophisticated outfits (usually Italian) by the time they disappeared; Irish gangs’ heyday was probably when they were filling NYC with immigrants (eventually leading to political power - Gangs of NY-type stuff).
I hike along the NY/NJ border, and there were mining iron settlements often along racial lines; in the mid-19th century some mines wouldn’t hire Irish workers, but by the early twentieth century the remaining mines had many Irish, Italian, and Eastern European workers. The first Catholic churches in the area were to serve them; there weren’t many other people living in the area except those related to the mining industry (mining as well as forging, and the related carting of finished product - which required farming for both fodder for draft animals as well as the ironworkers themselves). Fascinating history...
To Obozo, “Criminal Justice Reform” means blacks will no longer be held responsible nor prosecuted for their crimes.
Because rappers are experts on criminal justice, right?
Did they lobby for increased taxes, too?
“Southerners and Heartlanders have GREAT allies in Italian and Irish east coasters when we take back this country.
They just dont know it because of all the f...t bleeding heart voters.
We could take them out in a day :)”
This transplanted Southerner agrees with you. From the fact that my significant other is Italian, I know personally that Italians are our allies. :)
My favorite rappers were W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan — the creators of “patter song.” Best tunes, lyrics, and humor ever.
Unless Tobymac was there, the headline is a lie.
Eric Holder said the same.
They weren’t going to prosecute their people.
No doubt, the infamous Felonious Punk was there to meet Nefarious MUZ..
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