Posted March 26, 2018 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

It’s weird. Rap music is known for invoking firearms on a regular basis, even if they’re not described as being used in the most responsible way. Yet rappers seem to invariably gravitate toward the anti-Second Amendment politicians.

With every generality about people, there are exceptions. One of those is rapper Michael Render, AKA Killer Mike.

Pro-Second Amendment rapper Killer Mike accused anti-gun protestors of racial hypocrisy in an interview with NRA-TV that drew a strong backlash on a day of nationwide marches in favor of gun control.

In a discussion with NRA-TV host and lawyer Colin Noir on Thursday, the rapper, half of the duo Run the Jewels, said African-Americans need guns to protect themselves. He added that not all progressives are genuine allies of African-Americans — and that some progressives are “going to progress us into slavery.”

“A football player just got shot by an armed white man — for a traffic argument. A black teenager got shot by an armed white man in a gas station because… he had played his music loud. Where were you then? Where?” he asked.

He also cited the fictional African nation in “Black Panther” that avoided invasion or colonization, saying that in Wakanda, “everybody …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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