Shontel Brown strikes back at Killer Mike and Nina Turner calling James Clyburn "stupid"....

[sheshe2]

63. Here is that and more.

Then, I checked my phone, and shook my head. I finally regained some internet as I was walking away from City Hall shortly after the rally ended. Right before my battery died, I learned about what Killer Mike did.

The Atlanta rapper had pre-recorded a segment for NRATV, the National Rifle Association’s broadcast outlet, in which he argued strongly for gun rights. The video went online during the March. Killer Mike, half of the fierce hip-hop tag team Run the Jewels, filmed a pre-recorded chat with NRATV host Collins Iyare Idehen Jr. (who is also black, hence the stage name “Colion Noir”). In the video, Idehen added an introduction to the video directly challenging the March organizers. “What are you really marching for?” said the host, apparently unable to discern that from the event’s title. “Because from where I’m standing, it looks like a march to burn the Constitution and rewrite the parts you don’t like in crayon.” Idehen’s corny screed set the tone for a conversation in which both he and Mike question the “wokeness” of black gun control advocates and show condescension for the hundreds of thousands of marchers who took to the American streets. It was less an interview than it was propaganda for the NRA, arguably the most powerful political organization outside of the criminal justice system that works consistently to create societal acceptance of untimely black death.

snip

Mike proudly recounted how he forbade his children to participate in National Walkout Day, saying that, “If you walk out that school, walk out my house.” Killer Mike even finds space to give caustic NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch some dap, buying into her February CPAC remarks about the media not caring about black gun victims, as if the NRA is scheduling town halls on Chicago’s West Side for families grieving loved ones lost to gun violence. It was nauseating to watch Mike lend his legitimacy with black audiences to an organization that exploits racial anxiety in order to encourage white people to buy more guns.

More:https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/what-the-kids-got-right-and-killer-mike-got-wrong-205306/