“Memorial Day is about getting shit faced,” according to Pittsburgh rhymer Wiz Khalifa.
The tweet from Wiz, which was made Sunday (May 28), was unsurprisingly met with a great deal of slander on Twitter.
“When you get my age Memorial Day is about getting shit faced by the pool, eatin Bbq and not rememberin shit so…Yea,” Wiz Khalifa wrote.
In response to his tweet, a number of users attempted to school the rapper on the true meaning of Memorial Day.
“You are a real dumbass. If it wasn’t for our soldiers you wouldn’t have the freedom to do any of those things. They protect us from this,” responded MMA fighter/standup comedian Gerald Harris.
Wiz did go on to clarify his Memorial Day comment, explaining that he never meant to be “rude” with his words.
“Didn’t mean anything rude, that was just my way of saying sometime people rather focus on the good times than the bad,” he wrote.
What we tend to forget is that people of color were not a vital, or an accepted part of war until MAYBE Desert Storm. Possibly Vietnam, but there was still rampant racism during that era. So if Wiz feels that way it’s probably less about ignorance and more about not knowing someone that participated in warfare that directly effected his experience as a growing man.
I shouldn’t of said vital, because of the Tuskegee Airmen in one of the World Wars so I stand corrected.
No big surprise here, this guy is a fucking idiot. Money can’t fix stupid.
Memorial Day…….. hmmm let’s see. R.I.P. to all the African Americans and Hispanics that fought for our freedom and we are still getting treated like trash. Our people helped fight for the freedom of this country and still get killed, harassed, and thrown in jail for no reason. Forget this racist @ss country and all the fake history we were taught about in school. Destruction is coming.
Actually soldiers haven’t fought for our freedom since the American revolution. So get off this dudes dick. They fight for corporations and steal resources from poor people. Don’t fuckin act like it’s such an honor to kill poor people who can barely defend themselves. What a fuckin joke.
Yup
Lemme guess we fight to free those people from tyranny. Lmao. You mean we fight for the central banking system to install central banks across the globe so everyone is under the thumb of the people who own the banks. Seriously don’t make me school you fuckin retards on how this all works. It’s become pretty blatant. Just do a little research into which countries are not under central and then see which countries we are currently trying to “liberate”. Coincidence? I think not.
thats right, all the manouvers of intelligence go at controling the oil and planting military bases across the world, so heros? fighting for freedom? more like the bad guys pretending to be the good guys
dinduism a rapidly grow belief system
wiz does have a point. why you gotta keep paying respect to dead soldiers every year? you choose to fight in wars, you choose to put your life at risk. this isn’t news. what about soldiers from different countries that died? y’all gonna pay respect to them too? they had families too. let’s just chill and have a good time.
Ever heard of the draft? Not everybody chose to fight.
Soldiers dont fight for this “country”….. they fight for the real Master’s of America, the Zionist Corporations $$$. You have to be a complete idiot to think bombing other countries overseas will help America be a safer place. Bush said if we dont bomb them over there, they will come here…. and guess what? We invaded and bombed many countries and they STILL got inside America to commit terrorist attacks. Wake the fuck up
Facts. Also, this idea that more violence somehow begets peace is crazy. Amerikkka built ISIS. Al Qaeda. Because we don’t admire excellence in education, we deal in the only thing we do better than anyone else…arms. war. religious dogma. Imagine how much better the world would be without religion? There would be nothing to fight over! And for real, lets stop acting like voicing an opinion is somehow anti-american or “spitting in the face of our troops” That is simple manipulation. Fake nationalism used against you. I fully support our troops. I despise war. See how easy that is? These soldiers are young people that have been taken advantage of for the enrichment of shit heads like 45.
People shouldnt be too offended by Wiz’s comments. I know a lot of people that view memorial day as a day off from/work. You can waste ur time trying to educate, but next year it will be just another day off from work.
People act like they’re not drinking by the pool on Memorial Day smh… some people are too easily offended. Do y’all really think Wiz doesn’t appreciate those who have died fighting for our country?
Nah Wiz is right, no one in the hood cares about memorial day. And most people in the hood are smart enough not to join the army in the first place. Let affluent whites die for their own privilege.
False. All these wars touch everybody, every hood and have a tendancy to make poor people poorer. The money they spend on war doesn’t help the people back home. I wouldn’t be so sure as yourself that whites die for their own prvilege when there were less army soldiers dead in Irak in 4 to 6 years (some being from the hood I presume too) than dead youn males in 1-2 year in Chicago. Chicago was sacricied to budet war. You see some pattern there? Get it now, son?
You could reply all these rednecks are overdosing on heroine in all these shitholes across america, my friend! Same thing, poor people dying. The country has let everyone down, except politicians and some elite. We are witnessing the dyin days of the USA, not unlike Rome, wouldn’t you say? Civil war in 15 years tops. You can thank the press and media for outright treason. Lucky I don’t live there
Well said unfortunately it will go over most peoples head .
You had me until blaming press and media. Press and Media simply ask the questions. And often, because regular old news doesn’t sell anymore they reach further to try to sell clicks. Its up to US as an informed citizenship to seek out the truth. corroborate stories with facts, data. You know like science. Instead all too often we just glance at headlines, consider it enough and spread falsehood. Media has a part in it, being that stories develop quickly, daily…. but its really up to US to do our homework.
Listen all these WH leaks going to washington post and NYT are dangerous. The press is biased and pushing a socialist agenda. If the press dont reveal the identity of leaks they coulf be faced with contempt of court. Check judith miller pultzer winner. She went to jail over WH leaks. You dont have to like Trump but was in happening now is setting us up for civil war in future. They want Trump impeached so bad the press will say anything and people beleive. He gets impeached and what then? It becomes lalaland? The shockwave would be huge. Its the people vs politicians
“The county has let everyone down” – Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
Thats what they say to recruit kids in the army
You have some good points but I was just talking about the absurdity of shaming people into observing memorial day, not the ethics of war as a whole. That’s another discussion entirely…
Well you are right my friend all this shaming and ra ra shit over the flag is annoying.
Your age? Your fucking 30 lol and how about the old guys from the VFW’s who participate in get togethers over memorial day who are aged like 60-90 they must not get it huh?
You talkin to me? Listen im not american i lived there when i was young four years. I live in Tahiti french polynesia and lived in Paris and hong kong. I probably toke on some of the best in the world just ask about us so i got nothing against Wiz saying i dont give a shit about memorial day, not my business. Looking from the outside in i really feel bad for americans. They are being set up by politicians.
You so-called Blacks, Hispanics and Native American Indians (NOT YOU WHITE FAKES) are the true biblical Israelites.
Everyone is talking about what was said…how about what’s been done.
Memorial Day….I think its funny how you pick up millions of people from the coast of Africa and Separate them onto different land masses and than call them some unheard of by-words as a nationality…divide in conquer.
Memorial Day…I think its funny that we constantly attacked by media…police…and just your average friendly neighborhood white man.
Memorial Day…I think its funny how people might respond by saying this has nothing to do with race YET America is all about race…racists, riots, discrimination, lynching and so much more!!!
So let this be a constant reminder that Memorial Day isnt about remembering the bad in America…like blacks voting and such but more about the human zoo’s, the alligator bait and the fun times white America ruled the world by the sword causing wars, and foreign revolutions.
And Finally…Memorial is BULL SHIT because the only people who are remembering things are the Brainwashed Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans and white people and their wealth.
#AMOMENTOFTRUTH