RZA took to Twitter today (January 8) to clarify his comments that Black youth should not scare the police.
“How can a original black man be a coon &sell out?” RZA says in a series of posts. “You best look deep into my words &make an assessment. Do you still think pork is healthy?”
In an interview with Bloomberg that aired Wednesday (January 6), the Wu-Tang Clan rapper, who is also a supporter of PETA, was asked about the Black Lives Matter movement. He says that “of course Black lives matter. All lives matter. I stopped eating meat because their lives matter to me.”
He also says on Twitter that he understands his comments can be taken as controversial, but says that his statements do not justify police acting out of line.
“I don’t expect agreement with everything I say,” RZA says. “I speak honestly from my own perspective &evaluation from my space time experience. I could never condone police brutality or any form of injustice and oppression. Knowledge of self means studying self to improve self. Peace. I’m not condemning the kids for their garments. We live we should learn and evolve. When are we men at 21 or 41? Yea yea mon. Enough Rza badgering for the day. Add a button up shirt to your wardrobe. Of course Black lives matter.. All lives matter.”
In the Bloomberg interview, RZA said that he encourages his sons to be thoughtful of what they wear, being aware of the stereotypes place on Black men.
“When you think about some of the brothers who are being brutalized by the police, you also gotta have them take a look and us take a look in the mirror at the image we portray,” RZA said. “If I’m a cop and every time I see a young Black youth whether I watch him on TV, movies or just see them hanging out and they not looking properly dressed, properly refined, carrying themselves, conducting themselves at proper hours of the day, things that a man does. You’re gonna have a certain fear or stereotype of them. I tell my sons…I say, ‘If you’re going somewhere, you don’t have to wear a hoodie.’ We live in New York, so hoodies and that is all good, but sometimes button up your shirt, clean up. Look like a young man. You’re not a little kid. I think that’s another big issue we’ve got to pay attention to is the image that we portray that could invoke a fear into a White officer or to any officer.”
View RZA’s tweets saying “I could never condone police brutality” and clarifying his comments that Black youth should not scare the police are below:
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RZA never been real..can’t believe ten dope niggaz usee to take orders from such
..couldn’t even spit…he bullshit token black…Holywood up in that ass…long strokes.
RZA sounds like an old rich man who forgot where came from and what he used to represent.
Sound like a female bro, he made it to where he wanted to be. Do you wanna 50 in the fuckin ghetto bro, gtfoh wit you simp ass
You sound like a damn commie.
The Abbott speaks the truth. Pull yr pant up dirty niglets and maybe I wont shoot you.
fuck you and your mamma, ur grandma, ur grandpa, ur kids , ur wife , ur grandchildren, ur whole family. fuck you til u die, every second of ur life, fuck you. die slow bitch, hating ass muthafucka
Shoot a load in my butt mr officer then let me taste it
I guess Michael Bell was dressed like a thug too.
fuck you and your mamma, ur grandma, ur grandpa, ur kids , ur wife , ur grandchildren, ur whole family. fuck you til u die, every second of ur life, fuck you. die slow bitch, hating ass muthafucka
this is meant for @white cop, my bad
politics of respectability – only blacks selling this body politic are those who are public figures with several zeros behind their name.
Rza should really ask himself if our garments determine whether we are murdered by the state, why was MLK JR assassinated? He adhered to the protocol of the politics of respectability – a corner stone of the civil rights movement – it is why rosa parks was selected as a candidate to advance the bus boycotts. it was not because she was the first black person who refused to sit in the back of the bus. what about medgar evers? he followed the politics of respectability script as well. black people are murdered because of skin color; not because of what one chooses to wear. Rza you should be ashamed of himself. He sounds like a pundit on FOX
MLK was murdered because he was a threat to the powers that be.. He was uniting the people and the devils weren’t having it. Didn’t matter what he was wearing.. White Supremecists wanted him to go so they took him out.
RZA HAS SPOKEN THE TRUTH
BLACK MEN NEEDS TO STOP SAGGIN , GET RID OF THE TATOOS , THE GOLD
ITS UNEXCUSABLE FOR THESE CRAKKKERS KILLING CIVILIANS BUT WE ALSO NEED TO ABANDON THAT THUG LIFE
ATTITUDE
So now we cant have tattoos either?
Whats next? Paint our faces white?
Just dont abandon this boy butt daddy ????
Coming out the closet party? Shit im in☺
Matthew flo w nicely put.
I love rza but he lost me on this 1. He should look @ all his videos from the 90s and c he didn’t dress n e different than what he’s critiquing which would make him a hoppocrite. And I agree w DL he’s basically saying young black males put white make up on maybe then racists cops would stop killing you. Which is ridiculous.
A racist is a racist no matter what u r wearing.
I guess somebody pays a million dollars 4 your album n u start to lose perspective!