The massacre of nine church members in Charleston has kept the issues of racism, media biases and ultimately white supremacy on the forefront. Lupe Fiasco has joined in the conversation with a special open letter on Instagram.
Never one to hold back on any topic, the rapper breaks down white supremacy's misguided goals, similarities of many racial identities and more.
Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old white supremacist who killed nine African Americans in the historic Emanuel AME Church Wednesday night was found the following day and given a million dollar bond for a gun possession charge.
He has yet to be charged with the murders of the church members.
Over the weekend, an alleged manifesto of Roof's was found online alongside some photos of the terrorist. Lupe uses these images of Roof to denounce the powers and the identity of a white supremacist.
"There is nothing about you biologically or physically that denotes an innate mode of supremacy," he said. "For that matter there is also nothing about you psychologically, philosophically, cognitively, academically, socially, architecturally, culturally or even financially that signifies a higher position above any other group. And to be diplomatic there is nothing about you that denotes innate inferiority as well. So what you really are is something in the middle. You are regular."
"One color does not dominate the other nor can it," he said. "Sure Steve Jobs was white. But the guy who built the computer was probably Chinese. And the girl who wrote the programs for the computer is probably from Mumbai. And the raw materials that were used to make it where probably first pulled out of the ground by somebody in South Africa. And if you take this highly collaborated upon piece of high technology to an indigenous tribe in the jungles of Brazil they'd probably use it as a boat paddle."
You can read more of the rapper's letter in the gallery above.
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