Rapper Killer Mike unimpressed with black 2020 hopefuls and backs Bernie Sanders again

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Rapper Killer Mike is once again supporting Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, partly because of his frustration with other presidential candidates’ proposals for increased gun control laws, especially the plans from African American presidential hopefuls.

“I don’t trust black leadership that wants to de-arm black people,” Killer Mike, born Michael Render, told Yahoo News, pointing to how indigenous people were conquered because colonists had firearms.

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