Reacting on camera to the news of 12-year old Tamir Rice being gunned down by police in Cleveland, Ohio last month, rapper Immortal Technique quickly wondered out loud why growing instances of police brutality and killings are isolated to poor communities of color.
“My question for you or maybe the audience too is, why do you think police can do that there?” he asked. “Why don’t they do that in rich neighborhoods? Is it because they think they A can’t get away with it? Is it because that White life is worth more than Black life? Rich life worth more than poor life? What is it? I think when you ask yourself questions like that, even if you’re a sceptic, even you’re a person that thinks Darren Wilson is right, you don’t wanna ask yourself questions like that. You’re gonna end up getting answers that don’t fit with your narrative of the world and society.
“Is justice in America only for rich people then?” he added. “Obviously there’s a huge divide in how people think the police perceive so-called minorities even though we’re a majority in the world. We’ve been just trained to think we’re a minority to politically minimize us. If we consider that then we have to wonder, not just about that specific scenario, but all of them in general.”
Addressing the public anger and protests against recent cases of police not being prosecuted for the killing of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, Technique added his own public support for protests around the country and world.
“I’m not gonna shut up no more,” he said. “I’m done trying to placate or be nice to people. I’m telling them exactly how I feel and exactly how it is. I’m not doing this anymore. I just always tell people, ‘Don’t pop shit when you riding dirty.’ That’s the number one rule of the day. If you gonna sit there and say, ‘Oh, I’m standing up for human rights, civil rights,’ and then you got a pound of molly on you and God-knows what, packets of molly, a pound of weed in the trunk. And then there’s somebody hand in the glove compartment, you should probably shut the fuck up and clean your house up before you invite people over to tell them your political opinion. That’s dangerous. You don’t wanna expose yourself. I definitely wanna send a very big shout out, not just to the people in Ferguson that are protesting, but the people around the country, wherever they are, in Chicago, in New York, in Atlanta, down in Florida. I know people out in the Midwest, West Coast. And then all around the world. We all appreciate that support and we think that that’s a necessity to keep more young people connected so that we know that this is a struggle that represents all of us.”
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I thought jay-z said it best… Big shout to Shawn Carter Foundation, they do so much great work… I heard if Bleek keeps his grades up he’ll get his GED this spring also.
this kid’s on board with anything that is against cops. he should try releasing some fucking music.
we out here fighting for justice & equality and all your punk ass can think of is where’s some mp3 file you gonna listen to once anyway. One yaself.
It’s true what he’s saying about riding dirty. Right or wrong all these cops need is an excuse to kill a black man an all round common criminalisation of a whole nation
all you have to do to thwart their evil plan is, obey the law, be respectful to police, don’t resist arrest
“We’ve been just trained to think we’re a minority to politically minimize us.” – No, being a minority refers to people numerically. Chinese people living in Sudan are a minority. White people living in China are a minority. The majority refers to people who constitute a greater numerical value in a country with respect to there being lesser numbers of other people in that same country.
Ofcourse it’s racism, but more so I think it’s more rich vs poor. The police treat poor worse than the rich.
This clown ain’t even black!!!!
what does being black have to do with the price of tea in China? this is about police brutality. It happens to everyone. Im white and I got thrown to the ground literally handcuffed to the spokes of the rims on his tires like a dog. This isnt black vs white. (although thats what some make it) Unless you live in million dollar houses and drive nice cars you can end up on the wrong side of the law. EVEN THEN ive seen people with nice cars being harassed too. Its not about black white rich poor you dumbfuck moron…. this is about the corruption in America esp with the police force. We ARE ALL OPPRESSED in 2020. Wake the fuck up and stop making petty arguments over pointless shit. You literally didnt read the article, if you did you picked the ONE dumb thing to make a stance about. Do you have Immortal Techs Ancestry? Shut the fuck up
You’re not even smart.
We are all impressed?? Shut up white boy! Go back to the suburbs!
THAT CLOWN would wiipe the floor with you. That CLOWN made more money off one song than you’ll make in a lifetime. THAT CLOWN would fuck you mom then throw her off a ten story building. THAT CLOWN would destroy your life with one punch .
Fuck outta here you nobody punk bitch.
CLOWN
Haha haha THAT CLOWN!!!!
Immortal Technique an underground hip hop legend. But whats up with some new music. He hasnt dropped shit since 2011 The Martyr.
Hes been hinting about The Martyr 2 and The Middle Passage for YEARS. Hes the new Dr. Dre teasing albums but never dropping them smh
RIP Big Floyd the landlord
Well, these morons have officially done it. Over 75% of Americans now want the protests to stop and for all violent protestors to be arrested. Now over 95% of the country is saying that the police are being TOO SOFT and not protecting the public or their property. Now people actually WANT the police militarized and violent. What a bunch of fucking idiots. Now the police will be WORSE than before, legally, and there will be a new influx of young men and women catching felonies and doing time in PRISON. I don’t think ANY of these radical protestors (who are mainly white) have thought this through. When you end up in prison, are you going to cozy on up to the Aryans and tell them you were locked up for supporting BLM? LOL. All of this fake victim mentality shit has officially back fired. People see it for what it is. Bullshit. A man was murdered by an incompetent, idiot cop. There is NO evidence that he wouldn’t have done the same to a white or Latino man.
Shut up. Nobody is saying any of that except you… Sounds like some Breitbart, Fox News, Q anon, maga, anti-vaxx, flat earth, biased regurgitated nonsense. And you’re literally only saying it because you’re not black… You’re such a tool. Lol
Shut your retarded ass up and go to Breitbart or 8 Chan cracka
Immortal Technique always been a far-left underground radical rapper. Thats why he never got mainstream exposure. He doesn’t fit the mainstream rapper agenda of promoting drug use and materialism. I stopped listening to mainstream rap back in 2008 and started listening to only underground hip hop. That mainstream rap will fry your brain.
B-B-But cops are violent to us too :’/
-white people
I love Immortal Technique, and I am fully in support of people standing up for what they believe in, however they deem necessary. At the end of the day we all have our own conscious to answer to. But this speech is not new. I had this speech on my phone in 2014 and I don’t think it was new then. I probably listened to it 100 times. It was with my music. Came right after “You Never Know”