Bernie Sanders voiced his support on Twitter yesterday (September 15) for the New York Times’ op-ed about the war on drugs. The former Democratic presidential hopeful gives Jay Z the co-sign for lending his voice to the narrative, which was illustrated by Molly Crabapple. The piece calls the war on drugs “an epic fail” and questions the system that incarcerates black people at a much higher rate than whites who commit the same crimes.
Sanders was a favorite of Hip Hop as he was in the running for the nation’s top position this year. Sanders received support from Killer Mike and Lil B in his campaign.
“In my heart of hearts I truly believe that Senator Bernie Sanders is the right man to lead this country,” Killer Mike said at a Sanders rally in his hometown of Atlanta. “And I believe it because he, unlike any other candidate, he said ‘I would like to restore the voter’s rights act.’ He unlike any other candidate said ‘I wish to end this illegal war on drugs that disproportionately targets minorities and poor.’ Unlike any other candidate in my life, he says that education should be free for every citizen of this country.”
The Vermont senator conceded his bid and, on July 12, declared his support for Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump.
There was also a rumor that he walked out to DMX’s “Where The Hood At?” at a rally, but yes, it was too good to be true.
It funny thay fight against poverty but his wife wears a very expensive dress
?…Your fuzzy logic is the only funny thing concerning this serious issue, your premise is that, because they fight poverty, they should exclusively appear impoverished?…implying that presumably Jay Z and Beyoncé or was it Bernie and his wife? should put their every last cent into the fight?…GTFOH
“the black community is imprisoned more than whites! but the black community has a massive drug and gang problem! but the cops target us unfairly! but the government doesn’t help us get all this drug abuse and gang violence under control! why do we get a bad rap for drugs, there’s more white people in prison for that shit! but there’s more white people who don’t get arrested for it! we’re all the same! it’s only white people that are corrupt and bad!”
is this topic supposted to be something new? is jay z unraveling some mistery? all this shit about White privileged bullshit, when the reality is that everybody can jump in the weed train just look at all the rappers involved in bussines around weed, people growing it legally, theres a whole culture about it and it seems like jay z just notice about this
Mystery***
Sanders policies would have DESTROYED the black community, even further than liberal policies already have..
@Ya Momz Sidepiece
That’s a facts but 99%of hiphop fans are economic illiterates so when they hear a politician say “free shit” all rational debate goes out of the window.
*fact