Killer Mike has a message for white liberals afraid of Trump

During an interview with Huffington Post, Killer Mike, had a message for white liberal allies of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Killer Mike was a huge Bernie Sanders supporter during the election and remained politically active all the way up through Donald Trump’s inauguration.

On the eve of the inauguration, Killer Mike packed a huge crowd into the Echostage nightclub and spoke out about the state of our nation.

“I just want to tell everyone who worked that campaign, or who works any campaign, that, at the end of the day, no politician is your ruler, or your master, or your lord,” he said. “These people work for us. We do not work for them.

“No matter who won, the day after tomorrow, this is our motherf***ing country,” he continued. “Who gives a f*** who is president? And what we will build or keep this republic going on is truth, honesty, integrity, love and democracy.”

He expanded on his views in a backstage interview with The Huffington Post.

“Instead of worrying, just understand you’re going to be living in a Southern state for the next four years,” he said of those in D.C. who might be worried about their city changing under Trump. “Your cousins who live in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee or Florida ― you might wanna call ‘em.”

He also had a message for white allies, and for the rest of us in dealing with white allies.

“Go outside of your white liberal, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant circle,” he told white allies. “Go find other people and become a part of movements that you don’t lead. Go become a part of movements in which you have to learn from the people who have endured this ― since Reagan, since Nixon ― and you will start to see what they have had to do to thrive and survive. And you guys will learn and you guys will devise strategies together.”

He then told African-American protesters to be patient, but not too forgiving, with white allies, saying, “It is up to us to express that ― and if you gotta write them off, if they just don’t get it, f*** ‘em. Find another white friend to teach. But we cannot throw everyone out.”

 

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