After accepting his third Grammy of the night three weeks ago and claiming he did it for Atlanta (I’m sure Cop City was considered in that jurisdiction), rapper Killer Mike was later led off in handcuffs after a backstage scrimmage on arguably the biggest night of his career, but I mean really, what’s a rapper without some street cred, am I right?
On a recent appearance on the daytime talk show, The View, Mike Render talks about that night, as well as his mission as a Black man from Atlanta who is a self-ordained messenger for his community.
Rapper @KillerMike discusses his historic Grammy wins and addresses the night ending in controversy after an incident with "overzealous" security led to his arrest: "All my heroes have been in handcuffs."
— The View (@TheView) February 17, 2024
"I walked out with the same dignity and respect that I walked in with." pic.twitter.com/LRGQ2Q2vq9
When commenting on the arrest, Mike dismissed the seriousness of the incident and mentioned that all his favorite “heroes have been in handcuffs: Malcolm, Martin, Mandela, Medgar,” so Mike, of course, felt right at home in jail, I guess. I’m pretty sure being arrested for getting into it with security at an awards show is not on the same level as martyrdom as when the other Ms were arrested, but a boy can dream, unless, of course, he is a Black boy who wants to be president. Additionally, I doubt any of the men Michael Santiago Render compared himself to would describe the governor of Georgia, the same governor whose political ads featured him holding a gun and stating how his truck was going to “round up illegals” as a “principled human being.” When pressed in the past about that meeting, Killer Mike shared a photo of Dr. King meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson.
The result of those meetings was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, not Cop City.
During that same interview, host Sunny Hostin pressed Mike about his past support of Kemp, support which he immediately denied, stating that he did not support Kemp, he supported his policies.
Oh, okay, girly pop. I see the vision, but I do not see the difference.
Mike’s reasoning was that Governor Kemp “is the governor of my state, so I have to be involved with him,” Render then metaphorically referred to Kemp as the king and that it is necessary for him to meet with the king on behalf of his people. WHO THE F*CK ARE YOU?!
He also stated that he did, in fact, support Abrams. Unfortunately, there were no photo-ops of the two readily available like there were with him and Governor Kemp, but there were quotes of him chiding Stacey Abrams for not supporting marijuana legalization in Georgia. Kemp has been the governor for five years now; marijuana is still illegal in Georgia. Murder Mittens Mike, the Blacktivist, also took credit for helping to get two Democratic senators elected in the state, work that Abrams did (which he did not acknowledge), despite running against the same man who said, “I was as frustrated as anyone else with the results, especially at the federal level. And we did something about it with Senate Bill 202.” This was Kemp’s response in reference to his voting to pass a GOP voter suppression bill. Killer Mike and all of the jewels he runs should also know that Kemp, who was the Secretary of State during his run for governor, a position that also oversees elections, was responsible for a data breach that compromised information, including social security numbers of over 6 million Georgia voters, not once, but twice, has purged over 1.4 million voters’ registrations and closed 214 polling offices. All of which have disproportionately affected Black voters. Kemp is a piece of sh*t, and frankly, so is any Black man who sends his people to slaughter by voting for him; oh wait, is that what the Killer part stands for?
There is also a recent TikTok video which features Killer Mike, from the account ‘BlacksforKennedy,’ specifically 70-year-old Robert Kennedy Jr., a man with wildly varying political views and who is running for president much more off the merits of his name than the merits of his political accomplishments because he has actually never office. In the video, Mike talks about a young man (whom he also refers to as a boy) and a woman who gets pregnant. In order to keep the young woman from “dragging,” her co-parent into the child support office, he proposes that the young man/ boy instead go to trade school for two years, mandated by the way (mandatory trade, hmmm, that sounds like…) and within those two years she cannot file for child support, while he gets a debt-free education. Now, debt-free education is great, but what about her, do her bills stop while he is forcibly, yet freely, learning a skill? Additionally, the hypothetical, emotionally stable, and in love couple gets an incentive if they then marry after his completion of trade school.
Killer Mike’s executive order “solution” to child support is stupid https://t.co/72Uf0ewOGy pic.twitter.com/8naSbl09bZ
— colorfullstory (@colorfullstory) February 20, 2024
Xitter user @colorfullstory highlights many of the flaws in this argument, including the possibility of the manchild getting more than one girl pregnant at a time in a country that outlaws bigamy. The way Renderbot also speaks about how Black women go to college, but Black men don’t, almost feels as if he is saying that Black women are given this opportunity over Black men, like what?! While on The View, he also mentions the availability of free education or trade schools for B-average students in Georgia, and he immediately follows that statement with, “In my community [black] boys don’t have anywhere to go, and they are not choosing to.”
So, if you don’t have the grades to go anywhere, get someone pregnant?!
Killer Mike, like so many Black rappers before him, has become nothing but a Black capitalist in street n*gga’s clothes. He is no better than elected officials who run on Democratic platforms but switch parties while in office and a representative for the overzealous cops who arrest Black men at award shows. For a man who also said on The View that he “has to be involved,” with the governor of his state, he also is defying the same advice from his grandfather that he claims to adhere to which is “staying out of white folks’ business and watching what happens,” when asked about the presidential race, in that same appearance. Ummm….Killer Mike is a killer equivocator, happily dancing back and forth between what sounds good and what is good and what is a good lie.
If support looks like chiding a Black woman with her Juris Doctorate from Yale over not having marijuana legalization as a campaign promise while having photo ops with the “principled human being,” with a BS in agriculture and Player haters Degree in voter suppression whom he claims to NOT support, then I must not know my eye from my assh*le, especially when my eye is pretty sure it’s looking at one.
The son of a cop and of a—I’m not going to disrespect his mother but you get it—is an advocate for forced marriage, forced trade and cop city, while ignoring the right to vote being stripped from the same people in his community and who likens his arrest to some sort of side effect of being a political rabble-rouser like the great Ms before him, when really he is just one letter late for what his true calling is.
