Daily Signal: Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z is drawing belated condemnation on Twitter for attributing “adverse feeling for authority” to fatherless households during a panel discussion on social justice earlier this year.
Videos of the rapper—whose given name is Shawn—discussing single-parent households on a race-relations panel recently surfaced and went viral.
In the clip from the January discussion, Jay-Z, 49, remarked that fatherless homes cause boys to rebel against the police and “people to lose lives” when interacting with police.
“You think about the idea of growing up in a single-parent house, which I grew up in … and having an adverse feeling for authority,” said Jay-Z, the first billionaire hip-hop artist and entrepreneur.
“Your father’s gone, so you’re like, ‘I hate my dad. Don’t nobody tell me what to do,” he said. “I’m the man of the house. And then you hit the street, and you run into a police officer, and his first thing is ‘Put your hands up, freeze, shut up … you like … F— you!’”
He added, “That interaction causes people to lose lives.” keep reading
COMMON SENSE tells Ya this.
Jay Z. Married to Bouncy. why should I give a fxck? I’m willing to bet his security detail is all black and sucks. Any bets?
C’mon, man! Don’t make me wrap a chain around my arm and come over there, Special J. You know I’m untouchable.
He’s getting the ‘Cosby’ treatment.
Jay who?
The ‘Cosby’ Treatment… very real!
(Shifty-eyed white liberals) “Uh, uh, um, the community is the father that raises children, and ah, aggressive children who get shot by police, well, that’s just racism right there, –don’t get any funny ideas that black kids need fathers or anything…..”
He might need to lay low at Kanye’s place in Wyoming.