Rapper Killer Mike Catches Flak For Pro-NRA 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.
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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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