Charlamagne tha God recently weighed in on the Joe Rogan controversy and took a bit of a different stance than some may have come to expect.
"I actually really like what India Arie said," he said. "Number one, she said she doesn't think Joe Rogan is racist, she just thought it was insensitive."
"If you're a radio personality, a podcaster, rapper, comedian, artist in general-- anybody that does this for living-- if you open your mouth, and words come out for a living, you can't be for censorship. And if you are from a certain era, there is no way in hell you can look at Joe Rogan and be like, that's fucked up. That's what's killing me about all of this, the lack of self-awareness that some people have, the hypocrisy."
Charlamagne continued, "I don't think there's ever room for a white person to use the n-word."
"The Planet of the Apes was the worst to one me, but by the way, that was twelve years ago. We've all made fucked up, terrible jokes. And I listen to Joe Rogan, I don't know him personally like you do [referring to Andrew Schulz] I've met him twice, but I've been listening to him for over a decade. The one thing I've always liked about Joe is his self-awareness. If you go back and watch the Planet of the Apes thing, even in that commentary, he literally goes, 'oh my bad, that's fucked up. That was racist.'"
He concluded, "The thing that really got me this week was the lack of self-awareness from some people. Cause I'm watching certain folks taking him to task and I'm like bro, I've been following you for years..."
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