Posted on 05/08/2013 2:45:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
PepsiCo is bowing to public pressure for the second time in a week and cutting ties with Lil Wayne over the rapper's crude lyrical reference to civil rights martyr Emmett Till...
The black teen from Chicago was in Mississippi visiting family in 1955 when he was killed, allegedly for whistling at a white woman. He was beaten, had his eyes gouged out and was shot in the head before his assailants tied a cotton gin fan to his body with barbed wire and tossed it into a river
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No wonder 90% of the media has ignored this story.
From the UK Guardian, here is what the rap hero Lil Wayne said in his garbage.....(you can barely find a mention of this racist idiot in the USA media):
The track in question is Future’s Karate Chop (remix), on which Wayne appears as a guest. “Pop a lot of pain pills,” Lil Wayne raps. “Bout to put rims on my skateboard wheels/ Beat that pussy up like Emmett Till.”
I wish PepsiCo would cut ties with Jerry Jones over crude/inept football management.
Government school educated Pepsi marketers are morally vacuous.
Gee - a rapper with crude lyrics, what a shock! I guess PepsiCo will have to find another way to be hip and cool.
No kids that listen to crap know who Emmett Till is any way.
I wish Pepsi would cancel that commercial with Mrs. Hulk (Beyonce)
“Gee - a rapper with crude lyrics, what a shock! I guess PepsiCo will have to find another way to be hip and cool”
Gee I don’t know. I think since they use some Chinese flavoring that has babie’s stem cells in it Its kind of appropriate to use a scum bucket rapper to advertise it. The thought of drinking a pepsi after I heard about that is enough to hurl.
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