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As a lifelong Hip-Hop head, I have to say it’s been disappointing to look at among the rappers I grew up listening to—artists who stood towards every little thing American conservatism seeks to uphold—willfully align themselves with ideologues of white nationalism who will, in flip, exploit their, at finest, superficial help in an effort to current a false picture of racial variety with hopes that they’ll proceed being racist whereas not being known as racist.
Donald Trump is a demonstrable racist. And Republicans used to hate rappers.
Even now, conservative pundits and politicians deflect to rap music at any time when they want a scapegoat for American violence or to justify their anti-Blackness. A decade or so in the past, rappers like Ice Dice, Killer Mike, Lil Wayne and even Kanye West wouldn’t be within the mentions of outstanding right-ringers, particularly elected officers, until they have been being denounced as thugs and degenerates whose music is poisoning the youth and destroying the Black group. However now, they’re a minimum of good for a photo-op as a result of the MAGA world is determined for “Black buddy” help.
However hear: It’s not terribly stunning that a number of previous, wealthy rappers who’re rising out of contact with the Black collective have embraced Trump (a minimum of considerably). It’s just a little sadder when younger up-and-comers within the rap recreation are doing the identical.
In different phrases: Sexyy Crimson asserting that she’s additionally MAGA purple is fairly disappointing.
As beforehand reported, Janae Wherry aka Sexyy Crimson not too long ago declared that she likes Trump and that “they help him within the ‘hood,” although Black folks, no matter class, typically don’t help the orangey-white supremacist who used to occupy the Oval Workplace. (Republicans hold leaping at each survey that exhibits the slightest uptick in Black Trump help, however the truth stays that no different racial group is as overwhelmingly anti-Trump and anti-Republican as Black folks.)
Anyway, since Crimson’s reasoning for liking Trump appeared to focus on the concept that the previous president received Black folks’s hearts by dolling out meager stimulus checks throughout a pandemic many specialists imagine his presidency made infinitely worse, it’s fairly clear the 25-year-od simply isn’t very socially or politically conscious, which is why journalist Angela Rye is out right here making an attempt to coach the Blacks for MAGA.
Rye not too long ago recorded a video by which she identified that Trump “has been racist for a very long time,” utilizing the Division of Justice’s lawsuit towards him over anti-Black housing discrimination within the ’70s. She additionally talked in regards to the time Trump stated “laziness is a trait in Blacks.”
On the finish of the day, Trump can also be the white conservative cult chief who primarily spearheaded the Republican battle on essential race idea, variety, inclusion and Black historical past. It’s a disgrace there are such a lot of Black individuals who both miss out on that or are detached about it.
It’s unhappy, actually.
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