Killer Mike raps about social issues in his music and has also taken his words to lecture halls and political rallies.
In a recent interview with New Republic, Killer Mike explains how his message differs based on his audience.
“I’m telling White people: In order to stop systemic racism, you must first befriend, become a colleague of, get to know intimately, put yourself culturally in the framework of someone who doesn’t look like you,” the Run the Jewels rapper says. “And it sounds so simple. But when you do it, it becomes such a feat. Because it forces you, on an individual level, to challenge every preconceived thing your team has ordained as OK.”
Killer Mike has spoken to students at MIT and introduced presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a political rally in Atlanta. He says that creating a united front between all races is the answer to ending systemic racism.
“The way you start to break down systemic racism,” he says, “is to start building individual relationships with people who are not like you.”
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Shout out to the Killer of Mikes. Racism is systemic because Amerikkka has not reckon with the past. Whats happens today is the state of society whose foundations are laid in injustice an violence… be the change you wish to see yall
its always food for thought when this man speak.. smh beautiful educated mind Killer MIke has..
Racism is not ending because fear & money distribution aren’t ending. I heard Jay Z say it’s hard to be white young & racist listening to Snoop Dogg. But the moment fearful privileged whites tell yo ass to do “this or that” for the money they are distributing, you are racist, all over again. Because money’s more important than empathy. Period. Drops mic.
Blacks promote their own oppresive system more than whites. They vote for a white political party who has strategically broken black families and even created the crab mentality.
theres no such thing as a black oppressive system….and there is no such thing as a non white political party….smh..ignorant white ppl these days
is just being white racist now?