Twitter Screenshot of rapper Lil Wayne in a Nightline interview.
Posted on 11/02/2016 5:37:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
Twitter Screenshot of rapper Lil Wayne in a Nightline interview.
The bombastic rapper Lil Wayne argued that "Black Lives Matter" is a false issue — that black lives do indeed matter in American society, at least from his perspective, and that the movement rests on anger at disconnected instances of police violence.
"I don't even know why you put a name on it. It's not a name. It's not 'whatever, whatever.' It's somebody got shot by a policeman for a f***ed up reason," Wayne said in a controversial Nightline interview. These comments suggest the rapper considers the police shootings which inspired the movement as unconnected and not motivated by institutional racism, as Black Lives Matter activists claim. He attacked the idea of institutional racism, noting his own success as proof that America is not racist.
"I am a young, black, rich motherf***er," the rapper continued. "If that don't let you know that America understand black motherf***ers matter these days, I don't know what it is. Don't come at me with that dumb s**t, ma'am." Pointing to the cameraman, he noted, "That man white; he filmin' me."
"My life matter, especially to my bitches," the rapper declared.
This is not the first controversial statement Wayne has made about race in America. In a Fox Sports interview from September, the rapper declared that there is "no such thing as racism." In the Nightline interview, he said he did not regret that remark.
Wayne also added that he didn't "feel connected" to "a damn thing that ain't got nothin' to do with me." He insisted that the movement fell into that category, and that if his interviewer felt connected to something that didn't have anything to do with her, she would be "crazy as s**t."
Then, as an example of something to which he indeed was connected, the rapper pulled a red cloth out of his back pocket. "I'm connected to this flag right f***ing here, because I'm connected. I'm a gangbanger now."
Despite the indelicate language and Wayne's gangsterism, he might have a point or two. There is no proof that the instances of police violence against black people which inspired the Black Lives Matter movement were connected or indeed racially motivated. While police may disproportionately target black people for increased scrutiny, the Black Lives Matter movement has inspired a newly divisive emphasis on race with some negative consequences.
Indeed, one Black Lives Matter leader abandoned the movement because the official organization opposed important educational reforms.
It is important that not all black celebrities embrace the movement, no matter the legitimacy of its claims.
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Preach it Little Wayne...I dont know your work from Adam, but sounds like you are right about at least one thing.
Maybe its not quite stated the way that you'd state it to your preacher or grandmother, but all in all he makes a valid point. Charles Barkley used to say pretty much the same thing in a more refined way (and that's an amusing thought in and of itself).
Lil Wayne gets it, too.
Lil Wayne continues to impress me. He’s also been quite respectful of the military.
Doesn’t mean we’ll buy his product but what the hell.
Has he been called an Uncle Tom yet?
I might have to give Lil Wayne some props.
He probably warded off most of that with this line: "My life matter, especially to my bitches."
That does not surprise me
Lil Wayne would make a better President than Obama.
Watch his critics go nuts when he gives the politically incorrect answer to "Do all lives matter?"
Yeah, I'd say that would do it.
Lil Wayne doe not have time for wusses and perpetual victims, apparently. He is all about the $$$. I respect that!
I don’t know if he votes (doubt it, though), but if he does, I’d bet this time it will be for Trump. A private jet-owning billionaire businessman who’s had a string of beautiful wives, Trump is a MAN’S man. No way Lil Wayne supports Pickles Clinton, the pandering granny who pretends she carries a bottle of hot sauce in her purse (lol) and can’t get up a few steps without assistance.
It helps that Wayne has actually had a real job in the private sector and has been a success at it.
This is the “southern” in him coming out. He’s from New Orleans. Lots of white folks and black folks in the same boat down there.
You're 34 bro, but I'm 33 so I'll allow that.
94% of shooters of blacks are other blacks, little mind.
They act like all blacks shot, are shot by cops. And that none deserve to be shot by cops.
So predictable how Cankles and Obozo are clinging to the Cubs winning. It’s reminiscent of how some of the Cruzbots and Never Trump mouthbreathers on here are now on the Trump Wagon.
Election Night’s gonna be fun...
Is that a hat made of dried dog turds?
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