Killer Mike is more than just an American rapper from Atlanta, he is a political activist, and a very knowledgeable individual. During his interview on Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club show this morning, he was asked by one of the hosts of the show, Charlamange the God if he felt desegregation was bad or good for black people in America, and he said...
"My grandfather thought it was incredibly bad for black people. And he gave me two prime examples. He was like, the black community was richer, because on Sundays, it was Baseball time, and they had a negro barn league, and a negro leagues would come through, and they would spend 3-4 hours in the community, people come and cook...money got spent. But, integrating into major league baseball, it took a pool of money that once was in negro league baseball to major league baseball, right. It's nothing wrong with the players going, but in a 100 years or so...almost a hundred years we've integrated, we don't have ownership. We don't run upfront offices like you would expect us to."
His grandfather sure does have a point. Read on to know what Killer Mike personally feels about desegregation in America.
"So, grandfather helped me understand that prior to desegregation, there was a black bus company in Alabama too. You get what I'm saying? So, I'm not saying desegregation was bad, I'm just saying if all we get to do is shop at Gucci and buy cars from Rolls Royce, then maybe we need to rethink what you're doing with desegregation. Now that you've desegregated...see, cos during segregation, you owned businesses that other communities had to come to and support. So people had to go to Harlem to party...people had to go to Harlem for products and goods. Now, everything goes out...You only keep a dollar in your community 6 hours. If you're only keeping a dollar in your community for 6 hours, you are loosing."
You can watch the full interview below...he talks about desegregation around the 15 minute mark.
"My grandfather thought it was incredibly bad for black people. And he gave me two prime examples. He was like, the black community was richer, because on Sundays, it was Baseball time, and they had a negro barn league, and a negro leagues would come through, and they would spend 3-4 hours in the community, people come and cook...money got spent. But, integrating into major league baseball, it took a pool of money that once was in negro league baseball to major league baseball, right. It's nothing wrong with the players going, but in a 100 years or so...almost a hundred years we've integrated, we don't have ownership. We don't run upfront offices like you would expect us to."His grandfather sure does have a point. Read on to know what Killer Mike personally feels about desegregation in America.
"So, grandfather helped me understand that prior to desegregation, there was a black bus company in Alabama too. You get what I'm saying? So, I'm not saying desegregation was bad, I'm just saying if all we get to do is shop at Gucci and buy cars from Rolls Royce, then maybe we need to rethink what you're doing with desegregation. Now that you've desegregated...see, cos during segregation, you owned businesses that other communities had to come to and support. So people had to go to Harlem to party...people had to go to Harlem for products and goods. Now, everything goes out...You only keep a dollar in your community 6 hours. If you're only keeping a dollar in your community for 6 hours, you are loosing."
You can watch the full interview below...he talks about desegregation around the 15 minute mark.
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