As part of an interview with Time magazine, Queens, New York rapper Nas addressed the current state of the U.S. amidst the deaths of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and others, and the resulting protests. Nas compared the current climate of the country to that of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
The Queensbridge lyricist also stated that it’s not okay for the country “to look like apartheid South Africa.”
“We may have read about the Civil Rights [movement], but you didn’t live it,” Nas said. “You may have read about lynchings in Mississippi and Alabama, but you didn’t live through it. It was before this generation’s time, before my time. Now you get to see it. Something that’s always been going on. Something that’s been going on entirely too long. It’s not cool to look like apartheid South Africa [in] 1988. How are we going to be the free world or the most powerful country when inside this country we’re fighting because of skin color? That’s just embarrassing. I’m one of the guys that’s out there saying, ‘Listen, it has to stop.’”
Nas later revealed that he’s made it a point to inform black children that their history dates back far before slavery. He then explained that a number of white people are “very ignorant about American history” while black people have come to “have hatred towards themselves” for a variety of reasons.
“It’s important that every time I see a black child I look him or her in the eyes and I say ‘This is your world. You’re a king or you’re a queen,’” the rapper said. “Everything else is telling them that they were slaves. It’s important that they know history for black children doesn’t start in this great country. It started in the world’s first civilization on that continent they call Africa. A lot of whites are very ignorant about American history. Lots of black people are upset with themselves because they have hatred towards themselves because they’re too dark or they’re this or they’re too that. And there’s a lot of healing that needs to come onto this country. America, we are really smart enough to figure it out, but I guess it’s safer to hang out and be ignorant, and be hateful, and think that one person is better than the other.”
Last week, Nas joined Russell Simmons and thousands of others in New York City to take part in the Millions March NYC protest.
For additional Nas coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
I would take a bullet for this man. He is the best he is so perfect. GOAT
FAG
It doesn’t matter where you go on this planet or where you go in your history books the overwhelming evidence shows that white-skinned people seek to subjugate, exploit and exterminate non-white people whenever they come in contact with us.
Look at South Africa’s Apartheid system or go across the globe and study the oppression of the Aboriginals in Australia or visit your library and learn about the Opium Wars in China and the British Raj in India.
We live under a global system of white supremacy controlled by white-skinned near-albino Neanderthal mutants who came from a harsh and cruel environment that has made them fiercely aggressive and hostile towards other cultures and people whom they classify as “non-white”.
These albino-colored cave-people have recessive genes while all non-white people have dominate genes which means that they can be genetically annihilated off this planet through miscegenation….this scientific fact is another reason why they have to sustain a system of global white supremacy for their genetic survival.
White-skinned Neaderthals are a dying breed, they are only a small portion of the worlds population and they have a zero birth rate with miscegenation on the rise which means their numbers will continue to dwindle and die until they are as extinct as the dinosaurs…
Non-white people need to learn how to be themselves and accept their own and learn knowledge of self and understand that these white creatures are dying out and their rule is almost over.
Must suck to be you lmao
LOL
Thank you for your highly amusing comment and providing my universe with
laughter. White people have a low birth rate because they choose to breed responsibly,
and not create more poverty and hunger. Take note.
are you surprised that they responded with sheer ignorance? I’m not. like LOL @ that clown that said “breed responsibly” like it’s a beer commercial! Do I REALLY need to bring up sperm banks, mixed kids, dyed blondes, adoption, the census, octomom and that “kids & countng” reality show to slay these idiots? they tell on themselves.
& raise your kids
WHITES ARE THE MOST PHATETIC,IGNORANT,COWARD,HYPOCRITE BEINGS
BLACKS,LATINS,ASIANS,MIDDLE EASTERNS PLEASE STOP BLENDING IN WITH THOSE SICK CRAKKERS
u luv that white dick
My man Nas, speaking on healing. That nigga ripped my ass so hard once it didn’t heal for a month. I loved it but god damn, a nigga got rough, be warned!
Nas is the truest!
Nas da Don!
He speaks truth all the way…
Nas takes an L for not knowing the definition of apartheid. I am a fan of Nas.
you are truly a miseducated fool.
and clearly you do not know the definition of apartheid either
but he said LIKE, not IS
this dude is a troll he said nearly the same thing about jayz in the story about him & fox news.
it isn’t like or is
That’s real and I’m a white person. I think black people are great.. My kids are half black. Growing up almost all my friends were non white and it’s real embarrassing to see what’s going on right now. I just hope that black people understand that a great deal of us whites are not like that and want peace. Fuck all racist people…