Posted on 02/16/2017 7:04:20 AM PST by simpson96
Two Chicago icons, Bulls star Jimmy Butler and popular hip hop artist Chance the Rapper, have a message for Donald Trump as the president continues to spotlight the city’s violence.
Chance, who recently made history while picking up three Grammy wins Sunday, said in a recent interview with The Undefeated that Trump’s series of comments about the rapper’s hometown made it seem as though “he was going to war with Chicago.”
“I’m tired of n-----s talkin’ about Chicago like it’s a Third World country,” he told the publication. “Like, that it’s not a place of booming business with a very successful downtown and all types of new development.”
He added that he hopes Trump will come to the city “to do some type of federal overturn of our state and city budgets in terms of schooling and housing.”
Butler, who was also a part of the interview, echoed those sentiments saying “it’s hard to relate to the people here if you can’t relate to them.”
“If you keep throwing them in a category that they’re violent, no matter if they change or not, they’re still going to be in that category,” he said. “You go down there and you change people’s lives. You make them want to do better for the next person. And that’s when Chicago is going to be a beautiful place, and nobody’s comin’ here talking about how bad it is like he said, like a Third World country. ‘Cause that’s not it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
Uh huh
Lead the way bro
Get in line sucka, everybody’s got a message for Trump. Yours is so insignificant, it’s laughable.
Yup - the twin titans of Circular Logic.
Ah, the epitome of (non) intellect: a rapper.
Those idiots made fine work of undoing all the musical talents of the early gospel singers, ragtime, jazz, early rock and roll.
Funny how slime outstinks roses.
Shove it Butler. Up your Obamahole.
I can relate. </sarc>
Chicago is going to war with itself you stupid ****s. You had time to fix it and did nothing. As successful people, you have the resources to make a difference and either did nothing, were totally ineffective or contributed to the problem with you music. Go away.
This guy is a freakin genius.
Do either of these.....people....live in south Chicago???
Do they live and travel through the ghetto???
Or do they live in high end upscale neighborhoods with security???
Uh-huh.....I thought so...
Talk about relating....
Uh huh. Words of wisdom. NOT! LOL
I believe it was the famous white film director Spike Lee who made the movie called “ChiIraq” about the wave of murders in Chicago. What an overblown racist that guy must be, just because Chicago had a piddly 800 murders last year.
Telling the truth has long been offensive to the left...
And these two are looked up to by countless at-risk kids in Chicago.
Democrats....(SMH)
I didnt know Trump was a 'n'. No Dabnabit.
There's some deep thinking right there.
Its what I called the “3rd world thinking.”
Yes, our culture is decrepit and violent, and we are doing nothing to change it - but don’t you dare comment on it.
Icons...ok, if they say so.
That would make “The Donald” America’s Third Black President wouldn’t it! After Clinton and Obama! Woo Hoo! Still winning, President Trump is now showing his ability to mind control the left!
Well, yeah. Except for the 762 murders, 3,550 shooting incidents, and 4,331 shooting victims in 2016, it is not like a Third World country and is a booming metropolis.
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