Rapper: Blacks 'cheered when 9-11 happened'
Rapper: Blacks 'cheered when 9-11 happened': "Rapper: Blacks 'cheered when 9-11 happened'
"The hip-hop anarchist KRS-One has declared his solidarity with al-Qaida by asserting that he and other African-Americans 'cheered when 9-11 happened,' reports the New York Daily News.
The rapper, real name Kris Parker, defiled the memory of those who died in the terrorist attacks as he spouted off at a recent New Yorker Festival panel discussion.
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'I say that proudly,' the Boogie Down Productions founder went on, insisting that, before the attack, security guards kept Blacks out of the World Trade Center 'because of the way we talk and dress.
'So when the planes hit the building, we were like, 'Mmmm - justice.' '
The atrocity of 9-11 'doesn't affect us the hip-hop community,' he said. '9-11 happened to them, not us,' he added, explaining that by 'them' he meant 'the rich ... those who are oppressing us. RCA or BMG, Universal, the radio stations.'
Parker also sneered at efforts by other rappers to get young people to vote.
'Voting in a corrupt society adds more corruption,' he added. 'America has to commit suicide if the world is to be a better place.'"
It is sad for anyone to defile 9-11, an American experience and tradgedy, by saying it doesn't apply to them. I'm sure there were African Americans killed in 9-11, and hip-hop is rediculously mainstream. "KRS-One" should go hug Michael Moore.
"The hip-hop anarchist KRS-One has declared his solidarity with al-Qaida by asserting that he and other African-Americans 'cheered when 9-11 happened,' reports the New York Daily News.
The rapper, real name Kris Parker, defiled the memory of those who died in the terrorist attacks as he spouted off at a recent New Yorker Festival panel discussion.
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'I say that proudly,' the Boogie Down Productions founder went on, insisting that, before the attack, security guards kept Blacks out of the World Trade Center 'because of the way we talk and dress.
'So when the planes hit the building, we were like, 'Mmmm - justice.' '
The atrocity of 9-11 'doesn't affect us the hip-hop community,' he said. '9-11 happened to them, not us,' he added, explaining that by 'them' he meant 'the rich ... those who are oppressing us. RCA or BMG, Universal, the radio stations.'
Parker also sneered at efforts by other rappers to get young people to vote.
'Voting in a corrupt society adds more corruption,' he added. 'America has to commit suicide if the world is to be a better place.'"
It is sad for anyone to defile 9-11, an American experience and tradgedy, by saying it doesn't apply to them. I'm sure there were African Americans killed in 9-11, and hip-hop is rediculously mainstream. "KRS-One" should go hug Michael Moore.
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