RZA is a sucker for respectability politics and it’s such a disappointment.
Money is definitely a factor to this asinine Don-Lemon-way-of-thinking. To hear anyone from the almighty Wu-Tang Clan to engage in such politics is one of the saddest things to hear. For this reason, I personally don’t invest in celebrities, musicians, athletes.
Why?
Because they always let you down once you get a glimpse into their political views, religious beliefs, and overall moronic behavior that opposes your own. In the case RZA has let me down, although I shouldn’t be surprised. Speaking with Bloomberg‘s John Heilemann, the producer, rapper, songwriter, shared his views on Hillary Clinton and other political shit that doesn’t matter right now.
The meat and potatoes of the interview was when he spoke on the police (he wanted to be a cop) and All Lives Matter.
I love what the police do for our society, I love the idea of it, to serve and protect. Those who are upholding that idea, then they are beneficial to society. But those who lose that focus, whether they lose it through fear, through stress, or through not being properly trained—and they are allowed to go out on the streets—how can you enforce law if you don’t understand law?
When you think about some of the brothers who are being brutalized by the police, you also got to have them take a look, and us take a look , in the mirror, at the image we portray. If I’m a cop and every time I see a young black youth, whether I watch them on TV, movies, or just see them hanging out, and they’re not looking properly dressed, properly refined, you know, carrying himself, conducting himself proper hours of the day—things that a man does, you’re going to have a certain fear and 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 a hoodie and all that is all good. But sometimes, you know, button up your shirt. Clean up. Look like a young man. You’re not a little kid, you know what I mean? I think that’s another big issue we gotta pay attention to. Is the image that we portray that could invoke a fear into a white officer, or any officer.
Punch me in the fucking face right now. Public Enemy’s Fear Of A Black Planet never felt so real.
Watch the video below.
