Rapper Nelly is in fairly the dilemma with a few of his followers.
Nelly is reportedly slated to carry out at one among three official inaugural occasions for Donald Trump, according to CBS News. He’ll be at Trump’s Liberty Ball, scheduled for Monday.
On Wednesday, former Clinton White Home aide Keith Boykin appeared on CNN, asserting that any rapper who takes the stage at a Trump-related occasion is a “dishonor” to the Black neighborhood.
He went on to checklist Trump’s historical past of racist feedback and habits, reminiscent of his perpetuation of the “birther” fantasy about former President Barack Obama and Trump’s marketing campaign towards the Central Park 5 (now often called the Exonerated 5) — what Boykin described as Trump main a “lynch mob towards 5 Black and brown children within the Eighties.”
“This isn’t somebody Black individuals must be associating with or normalize,” he mentioned.
Nelly isn’t the one rapper to carry out in entrance of pro-Trump crowds forward of the inauguration. Snoop Dogg recently performed at Trump’s Crypto Ball in Washington, D.C., hosted by David Sacks, Trump’s crypto czar choose.
