Kanye West is still catching flack for meeting with President Donald Trump last December. But the Windy City rapper has a new ally on his side by way of Killer Mike, who appeared on Channel 4 News next to his group mate El-P to weigh in on West’s meeting with the Commander in Chief.
“It didn’t bother me, why wouldn’t you?” the Atlanta rapper asked rhetorically. “Black people shouldn’t have permanent friends or enemies, they should have permanent interest.
He continued, “If it wasn’t for Dr. Martin Luther King being willing to meet with people like [Governor] George Wallace, Wallace would not have ended up—starting as a racist bigot and ending as a person who found God in some way, and appointed more blacks to his office than any other governor since.”
Just last month, Mike was recognized by State Sen. Nan Orrock, a Democrat from Atlanta, for his work in helping to provide clean, safe drinking water in the city.
While at the Capitol, Mike delivered a speech to the senate touching on several issues. Read an exert from his speech below.
“Our children deserve decent housing. Gentrification should not make children poor. Our school systems deserve more attention. Our teachers deserve more money. Our firemen deserve more money. And our policemen deserve more than new guns. They deserve to have enough cops on the street to be involved in the community.
“The charge that I give all of us in this hall today is to make sure that Georgia remains an equitable place not only for water, but for education, for workers’ rights, for where we’re living. It should be as fair for a rural white man in Georgia who’s trying to live by the land, as it is for a kid on the Westside of Atlanta trying to survive the concrete.”
