Azealia Banks to Obama: ‘I Want a President Who Isn’t Afraid to Kill for What He Believes In’

[Stellar]

Azealia Banks is done with President Barack Obama not aligning himself with Black interests. The rapper posted a lengthy Instagram message in response to Obama’s message on the Baton Rouge, Louisiana shooting July 17. In a post made the same day, she lashed out at the leader of the free world for making gay marriage legal and issuing reparations for the Holocaust, but not lifting “a single finger” for the Black community.
“You sat in the White House and let your people die in the streets and didn’t do a god—- thing about it,” she wrote.
On Sunday morning, Atlanta Black Star reported via Twitter that a gunman was involved in a shootout with Baton Rouge police, killing three officers. In a statement, Obama called the act unjustifiable.

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[tonyt53]

1. Last I knew, Obama was the President of ALL American citizens. I'm glad to have him.

Obama is right on his comments about these police shootings advancing no causes. J

[Bok_Tukalo]

2. Obama has united ALL the racists in America in their hatred for him

Good job, Mr President! You make the right people angry!

[Stellar]

7. This is one time I can say...this black woman feels her pain.

I've been voting for Obama since he ran against Bobby Rush and lost, so I can say this time I feel that he is not speaking for me.

[irisblue]

3. well he did arrange the death of BenLadin & other Al Quedia

[Coolest Ranger]

4. Like some no name rapper

I ever heard of is going to make me not lose my respect for the President

[cyberpunk]

5. ...holy hells, is this legit?

This... This reads like an Aaron Mcgruder caricature. It really does, and it's disappointing that anyone would run this no-name musician like serious news.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Fortunately, Obama is in charge and the bad-mouthed Ms. Banks holds sway only on Instagram.

She sounds vaguely deranged, and her attitudes towards the LGBT and the Jewish communities are dubious.

[cyberpunk]

8. Dubious, I doubt it-- that was two skips and an expletive from bigotry.

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Benefit of the doubt...but VERY dubious.

[Onyrleft]

9. Double standard?

She cannot possibly want a music critic who kills for what he believes in.

[Basement Beat]

11. I'm sorry...and I'm sure I'm gonna catch hella flack for this...

but someone who advocates skin bleaching has ZERO volume in my ears on ANYTHING that relates to blackness.

[NWCorona]

12. I used to think she was so beautiful. I don't even recognize her anymore

[Stellar]

13. I remember as a teenager...

I had really bad acne that left spots all over my face, well into my early twenties, bleaching cream helped me greatly. When you are really young, you are very self-conscious of everything about yourself. I would have done anything to keep people from (I thought) staring at me.

[JI7]

15. but that's very different from using bleaching cream to lighten your skin because you have issues

with being too dark.

[Stellar]

18. She said she had those issue?

I guess we all have our own issues. Mine was the dark spots all over my face and her's was her dark face. Still an issue. But then you have White folk using tanning cream to give themselves more color. I guess it's all the same.

[JI7]

20. i don't see them as equal. white people getting tans is a lot different from

POC around the world using bleaching cream to appear lighter .

White people without tans are not viewed negatively .

[Stellar]

22. Okay Perhaps...

I was looking at it as an individuals opinion of one's self, and not how the world sees them.

[LanternWaste]

19. Was not your own use corrective/restorative rather than a conscious alteration of the original

Was not your own use corrective/restorative rather than a conscious alteration of the original, and is not that difference in intent both relevant and telling?

[Jamaal510]

21. That, and

she's a supporter of Mr. Caterpillar Hair for president. She needs to sit down somewhere before she makes herself look like a bigger clown.

[radical noodle]

14. Yet she's a Trump supporter.. n/t

[rusty quoin]

16. That is a reaction to what is going on, and a extreme one.

[BlueMTexpat]

17. May she never get her wish! eom

[heaven05]

23. I LOVE HER BECAUSE

she walks the walk and talks the talk no matter what people might think, feel or say. In saying that I'm not saying what I agree with or disagree with in her statement. I respect her.

[Stellar]

24. hear, hear!!!

[PragmaticLiberal]

25. Just Azealia Banks being Azealia Banks.

If she's breathing she's beefing with/at someone.


Just who she is.

[okieinpain]

26. It's the skin lightener. N/t.

[giftedgirl77]

27. She's young.

[louis-t]

28. Anyone whose title is "rapper"

doesn't automatically get my attention, or assure me she knows what she's talking about. She needs to calm the fuck down.

[Tarheel_Dem]

29. Call me when you take some of that shit out of your hair, and stop bleaching, and I might take you..

seriously Ms. Banks.