While increasing amount of black celebrities have come out to discuss racism, prejudice, and bigotry against people of color, rapper Lil’ Wayne has a message for them — you’re fighting against something that isn’t real.
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During a interview with Skip and Shannon Undisputed, the rapper announced that he doesn’t care about Colin Kapernick’s refusal to stand during the national anthem and he thinks concerns about racism are much to do about nothing.
“(On Kapernick’s protest) I have no opinion on it because I’m not into it enough to even give an opinion,” Wayne said and the described how he had to ask people why football player was refusing to stand.
Host Skip Bayless pressed the rapper about race relations in the U.S. and how Wayne experiences it on a day-to-day bases.
“Skip, they wouldn’t want to ask me that,” Lil’ Wayne said. “They wouldn’t want my answer to represent them because God knows I have been nothing but blessed. These 33 years have been nothing but a blessing. I have never — and never is a strong word — never dealt with racism.”
Bayless continued to press the rapper on the subject, asking him if he’s ever experienced offensive behavior from “any other color.”
“Never,” he replied, stating that he wasn’t sure if it was because he was blessed by God or because racism just doesn’t exist as much as Black Lives Matters claims that it does.
“There is no such thing as racism,” Wayne continued describing how he can look out at his concerts and see people of all different races going to his concerts.
He continued when the host pressed on police shootings, and Wayne said that when those situations unfold it’s best to know all the facts and “figure out what’s going on first” and it would be better to come together as a nation rather divide each other on racial lines.
Watch the full interview below:
