It’s hard to determine which is worse, Donald Trump or Geraldo Rivera. While Trump has his sights on vilifying Mexicans, Geraldo (who happens to be a minority himself) likes to pick on black people.
Geraldo Rivera has his issues with hip hop music and is blaming it for all of Black America’s problems. Maybe he’s still salty about the protesters in Baltimore reading him for filth. Either way, he’s claiming that not only is hip hop the root of all evil, so is Kendrick Lamar. Interesting, I didn’t know Dylann Roof and the KKK were Kendrick Lamar fans.
Geraldo was a guest on Fox’s The Five show this week and they talked about Kendrick’s “Alright” performance at the BET Awards. They highlighted the lyrics “We hate the po-po, wanna kill us dead in the street fo sho” and the fact K.Dot stood atop a vandalized police car.
“This is exactly why I say hip hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years,” said Geraldo. ” This is exactly the wrong message, and then to conflate what happened in the church in South Carolina with these tragic incidents involving excessive use of force by cops is to equate a racist killer with these cops…it is so wrong, it is so counterproductive, it gives exactly the wrong message.”
But is it the wrong message, Geraldo? Is it really wrong to equate the killings of unarmed black men by police officers to the killings of black church goers. Is it wrong to assume both are racially motivated. Are we wrong for being angry? Then again, I’m asking these questions to the same man that said Trayvon Martin would be alive today if he didn’t wear a hoodie…..in the rain.
The worst part about all of this is that Geraldo has the audacity to tell black people how to feel, what they should be doing and how to avoid being killed, but refuses to listen to black people about their thoughts. He’ll never sit and open his mind to dialogue with black people. He runs from it…yet he has so much advice for us. If you think his thoughts about Kendrick Lamar are bad, listen to what he said about Baltimore.
