Vic Mensa hoped to raise awareness of the horrible conditions in ICE detention centers with his new video “Camp America.”
In the video, the rapper highlighted the disparity in treatment by featuring what he calls “America’s prized white children” in the very same deplorable conditions detained immigrant children face.
“Families have reported being left with no option but to drink toilet water,” he previously told MSNBC. “Kids have been sexually assaulted. All of these things that are obviously just human rights violations, but are looked over because they’re done to people of color and they’re done to immigrants that are poor [and] are coming from war-torn countries.”
While the video is raising awareness, it is also being criticized as inappropriate by some, including the landlord of the building that houses Mensa’s charity “Save Money, Save Life Foundation.”
The nonprofit organization for Chicago Kids is run by Mensa and was told to cancel its lease on its new office space or face backlash after the landlord was “appalled” by the rappers most recent music video.
In a series of tweets, Mensa claimed his landlord called the video “racist against white people,” and he also said he didn’t care about what is happening at the border.
“So today we’re unloading trucks from @complexcon @ our office in Little Village when the landlord begins harassing the director of my nonprofit,” Mensa tweeted. “He told her that I was a ‘disgusting pig’ cause of the Camp America video and threatened if we didn’t leave to be ‘hostile.'”
