Posted on 09/10/2014 6:25:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Pharrell Williams told CNN's Don Lemon that President Barack Obama "needs to come down" to Ferguson, Missouri to see firsthand the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown.
"When your parents come into the room — whether it's you or your cousin that knocked the vase down — both of y'all sit up at attention," said the producer. "This is a deeper laceration in this country. This is going to be the longest hangover in race relations ever."
While Pharrell might not have been as vocal as his hip-hop peers following Brown's death, the Neptunes producer and The Voice judge still had some articulate thoughts on the matter. "What did I think of Ferguson? I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed in the way that it was handled from the government side. I think that that officer should be punished because that was excessive force."
"All those shots, where those shots were, the idea that that child laid in the ground – [Brown's] a child, I know he's 6'2", 6'3", but he's a child – he was laying in the ground for hours," Williams continued. "That kid didn't ask to be killed and so I feel like that officer should be punished, but at the same time, we got to start looking at our selves too because we are feeling hunted and we need to be able to avoid these things, and sometimes they're unavoidable."
Williams then tied the Brown shooting with the death of Trayvon Martin to the inherent issue with society today. When asked about a viral Facebook campaign that encouraged African-Americans to pull their pants up so they aren't racially profiled, Williams said, "Who is 'the man' to tell me how to wear my pants? Ain't nobody can tell me how to wear my pants, I'm a human being. And that's the thing: There are so many issues that keep getting lump-summed in the same issue, wearing your jeans on your butt or below your waistline has nothing to do with being black. You know how many white kids do that? That's not a black or white thing. Hoodies are not a black or white thing. It's an excuse."
Williams criticized the role of the media in the days after the Brown shooting. "I was disappointed that while we had so much peaceful protesting going on, what the media chose to cover most of all and highlight was the random few people that threw Molotov cocktails. The random people that had guns on them," Williams told Lemon. "This is the age of sound-biting."
You and he can take your silly song too.
Celtic Conservative: Pharrell ‘needs to go away and shut the swive up’ soon.
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Yo, man! Dat's right! I sits up, and I says, "Whitey did it!"
Nah.
Let Obama send Joe Biden to Ferguson.
(insert evil laugh here)
Can you imagine the tremendous good Sloe Joe could do in Ferguson? He could put his hand on the mother’s knee to show sympathy. He could have a good “You People” moment. He could even smoke a Swisher Sweet to show solidarity.
Oh, the possibilities are endless!
Send Pharrell to the feral yutes.
Maybe it will be a one-way trip.
The country has a lot bigger problems than another dead black gang banger. Let all the so-called discriminated against, disgruntled blacks just get out of the country and let the rest of us try to save something of it.
OMG! NO! They shoot blacks just for walking in the street there! He’ll never make out alive!
Seems like he needs a refresher of his own song>
“Here come bad news talking this and that, yeah,
Well, give me all you got, and don’t hold it back, yeah,
Well, I should probably warn you I’ll be just fine, yeah,
No offense to you, don’t waste your time”
He’s only 6% black, he should be fine.
Pulling your pants up ain’t Selma...
That said, if black men want to make a criminal ‘fashion statement’ that’s fine. It’s a free country. It’s also fine that other people won’t like it. Because it’s a free country for the rest of us too...
Unfortunately, Brown wasn’t punching some of these twerps in the face before he was shot dead. If he had been, there would be nothing but the sound of shoveling dirt about now.
yeah b/c everywhere he goes he just makes everything better. /s
I agree.
“0” should take Pelosi, Feinstein and Dumb Joe along.
Say between 10pm and 2a.m.
Bullshit, Pharrell. An 18-year-old is a man, and there are plenty of young men Michael Brown's age at Parris Island and Fort Benning preparing to fight and die for the rights of dumbasses like you to display your ignorance. Michael Brown was a violent, oversized young punk who capped off his busy criminal career by attacking a cop, and now he's gone. Since it's apparently impossible for you to think beyond your skin color, just shut up and sing.
what if obama hd strong-armed robbed a store for a box of cigars, a d got stopped by a cop, and then smashed the face in of a cop. yes i’ve seen him throw a ball.
but what if he did that and walked away.
and then refused to top.
and then turned around and charged the injured officer.
what message would that convey that obama had such contempt for an officer and the law.
now consider he and holder are supporting the guy that actually did this. how are they any better than michael brown? they aren’t.
“we got to start looking at our selves too because we are feeling hunted...”
In reality, black savages in liberal big cities are hunting white folks for no reason other than to cause pain, injury and death. It’s time to end this.
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