Killer Mike is facing backlash after he proposed his new plan to “strengthen” the Black community.
The Grammy award-winning Atlanta rapper’s plan includes a two-year grace period for new parents where child support payments are automatically waived.
“This is the two-year plan: first two years are debt-free,” he said in the clip circulating online. “You don’t have to pay anything back so she doesn’t have to drag him into court and the court can say you owe us money for investing in your child in food programs and head start programs because in those two years he has the option to then go to a trade school.”
Killer Mike, real name, Michael Santiago Render, told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that under his plan, young Black fathers would attend trade school without paying for child support. Instead, the government would provide support for young mothers debt-free.
Kennedy Jr., a longtime environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist launched his independent bid for the White House in October 2023. Politico reports that his campaign committee spent more than $3.2 million in January and still has more than $4.8 million left in his campaign account.
“You have to go to a trade school, which incentivizes the United States to do it because we need more tradespeople,” Render said. “We don’t have enough carpenters, we don’t have enough electricians, we don’t have enough people building roads.”
Critics weighed in on Render’s plan, pointing out that it appears to benefit young Black fathers rather than empowering both parents.
“In my community, the girls are going to college and graduating,” he explained. “They have no men to marry because the boys are not going to college in the same way.”
While he hasn’t outright endorsed Kennedy Jr., many see this interview as an endorsement of sorts, drawing a comparison with West Coast rapper Ice Cube, who faced scrutiny for posing with the presidential candidate.
Watch Karen Hunter’s reaction to Killer Mike’s plan below.
