Lupe Fiasco Explains Why MLK Was Assassinated, Do You Agree?

[boskey]

MLK was killed for advocating for the equal distribution of wealth and (quasi)reparations for Black people....



Lupe needs to STFU.​

This is related to his Vietnam stance. It can all be tied to “anti communism” which put a target on his back. Lupe isn’t wrong about that, just incoherent as usual

 

[feelosofer]

Please list your accolades so we can make an accurate comparison and judgment on the validity of this statement coming from you.

I'm not a public figure breh. I'm a guy on a message board and I have read most of MLKs books and letters over the course of his life. Had Lupe done the same thing he wouldn't have said that silly shyt hell if he had a better grasp of post WWII history he wouldn't have said that. I kinda sorta get what he was trying to say but it was incorrect.

 

[BlackDiBiase]

Lupe is too intelligent to constantly use the term “nikka.” shyt is corny.

i said that about dave chapelle and got shytted on.

 

[Piff Perkins]

I hate people who talk slick about mlk jr

Notice how over the last decade he’s either getting disrespected, white washed, or hit with weird arguments like Lupe’s. Lupe is basically saying "oh you thought the government cared about your little black people movement shyt? Nah they only care about war" which is a complete contradiction of the government's reaction to King. Just a weird argument brehs. Another weird one you'll see on social media, often from a certain type of black women, is that "MLK cheated on his wife so his message is irrelevant." Weird attempts to erase MLK, likely as a means of erasing black men from leadership positions. IE we need to get to the back of the line and let black women lead because even the best of us wasn't worth shyt. Just a wild argument to hear a black person make.

I'm sensitive about this because I think MLK is incredibly misunderstood and ignored...and I don't want to see that shyt from black people. I get why white people have turned him into a Disney character. To pacify black people and use MLK as a cudgel against black people, arguing any discussion of race is racist "because MLK said don't focus on skin color" lol. But I don't get why some black people play along in different ways to turn MLK into something he's not, negatively. We don't have to deify him or any man/woman. He was flawed like anyone else. Doesn't mean we got to smear him though.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

This is related to his Vietnam stance. It can all be tied to “anti communism” which put a target on his back. Lupe isn’t wrong about that, just incoherent as usual

They'd been trying to take him out since the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, but the Poor Peoples' Campaign was the proverbial straw that broke the Supremacists' back.​

 

[TEH]

 

[Wildin]

He's just kicking the chair out from under the idiots again.

He says "fukk Martin Luther King, fukk change" and people go " I don't like Lupe fiasco" then dababy shoots someone in Wal-Mart, shoots someone at his house, gets in a fight at a mall, threatens people online and they buy the album.

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

He's just kicking the chair out from under the idiots again.

He says "fukk Martin Luther King, fukk change" and people go " I don't like Lupe fiasco" then dababy shoots someone in Wal-Mart, shoots someone at his house, gets in a fight at a mall, threatens people online and they buy the album.

 

[Methodical]

Cliff notes?

 

[fact]

He's a buffoon.

He is most certainly not. He is one of the smartest people that could be labeled as an “entertainer”. This dude has achieved some kind of enlightenment, and if folks can’t understand what he is saying, in general, I can understand why they would question his intelligence, but that doesn’t make him a buffoon, it’s a self report.

 

[get these nets]

He is most certainly not. He is one of the smartest people that could be labeled as an “entertainer”. This dude has achieved some kind of enlightenment, and if folks can’t understand what he is saying, in general, I can understand why they would question his intelligence, but that doesn’t make him a buffoon, it’s a self report.

Oh, the "you're too stupid to recognize his genius" angle?

hehehehehehe

 

[feelosofer]

They'd been trying to take him out since the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, but the Poor Peoples' Campaign was the proverbial straw that broke the Supremacists' back.​

Exactly and Martins later writings were becoming more militant. Martin saw that 'equality' wasn't translating to Black opportunity and poor Black kids were the 1st ones being sent out for cheap labor and war.

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

i had low expectations but holy shyt that was dumb

 

[Red]

Anyone else get sociopathic vibes from Lupe? Or is he just a bit of a dikk? He's rude as fukk to the people he's talking to in almost every video

 

[FluffyEyes]

I blame the US school system for the systematic whitewashing and neutering of Dr. King's work and the complete misunderstanding of the strategies used AT THAT TIME and why.

They had a dossier on King before Vietnam was at the forefront and what ppl always forget is that King was talking much more about the role of class and how it intersected with race right before he died. THAT was more of a factor than whatever Lupe and his tiny teeth are talking about.