hey killer mike, you don’t need to be a nra token to support the right to bear arms

Most Americans support gun rights AND gun control.

About 1.5 percent of Americans support the NRA.

Which raises the question as to why Atlanta rapper and occasional activist Killer Mike joined the sexist, racist, fear mongering association that exploits black death (when it’s not ignoring it) and supports police brutality against black people this weekend.

Voicing his opposition to the March For Our Lives put on by the surviving victims of last month’s Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the video starts off with Killer Mike saying, “In Wakanda, everyone had guns, and spears and everything else you needed.”

And, first of all, that’s not even true as Okoye stated in the Black Panther film: “Guns, so primitive”. M-E-S-S-A-G-E.

“I told my kids on the school walkout, ‘I love you, [but] if you walk out that school, walk out my house,’” Ohhh-kay?

How Killer Mike raises and educates his children is his business, but why use a far right-wing propaganda platform to tell black kids and other kids seeking violence-free environments to sit down and shut up?

“We are a gun-owning family, we are a family that my sister farms, we are a family where we’ll fish and hunt, but we are not a family that jumps on every single thing that an ally of ours does because some stuff we just don’t agree with.”

You don’t agree with gun safety to curb gun violence in any way? That’s…………weird. And incongruent with the black lives matter movement’s resistance to that aforementioned violence in police-sanctioned form.

Following immediate backlash for the bizarre appearance in the NRA video, Killer Mike has issued two apologies to fans and critics claiming the NRA “misused” his words.

I hope this clears some stuff up. Love and Respect to all. Part 1 pic.twitter.com/pq977HEG7A

— Killer Mike (@KillerMike) March 25, 2018

P2 pic.twitter.com/FigGacJeYM

— Killer Mike (@KillerMike) March 25, 2018

“My interview with said organization who we all don’t agree with was supposed to be something that continued the conversation and that conversation is about African-American gun ownership,” he said. “I do support the march and I support black people owning guns. It’s possible to do both.”

Then why didn’t you? Even if there are some understandable reasons why some black people don’t want to give up arms (cc: The Black Panthers Party for Self-Defense, etc.), going on NRAtv is contrary to the liberation and safety of black people.

Philando Castile is all I could think about as I watched that @KillerMike video. Why work with the @NRA, even if you love firearms? They stoke fear of guys who look like him, all to sell more guns. I wrote about their ratchet asses last summer for @reader. https://t.co/GjyuMbh9w2

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) March 25, 2018

I love Killer Mike.Thats my brother. He made some excellent points about Black gun ownership. The problem is, he is talking about it on the NRA platform & the NRA could give LESS THAN A DAMN about protecting Black people's 2nd Amendment rights. Ask the family of Philando Castille

— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) March 24, 2018