Lootings took place again last night in Ferguson, Mo and Nelly (who some consider an ambassador for St. Louis…at least in the hip hop world) is calling for the nonsense to stop and saying the city may have jumped the gun on protesting.
Via TMZ
Nelly tells TMZ … “I understand the frustration, but we have to strategize before we overreact … We don’t get no do-over on sh*t like this, so we have to do it right the first time.”
The rapper adds, “Ain’t nothing happen no different that hasn’t been happening … At the end of the day, we should have waited to strategize first and take all the right steps to organize.”
T.I. had similar thoughts, telling us … “We needed to play chess instead of checkers. We should have waited to see if justice was going to be served first … We shouldn’t have played our strongest hand first.”Nelly tells us he wants to do something constructive, so he’s starting a scholarship fund in Michael Brown’s name. Nelly, T.I., Kevin Hart and NBA star Al Jefferson are the first 4 celebs pledging $15,000 a year in college tuition to teens chosen by the Brown family.
I agree with the strategize part. Not necessarily that the gun was jumped but that honestly, with all the looting, I see NO STRATEGY. Remember during the civil rights era when they would use the chant, “What do we want? When do we want it?” Do we know what we want? While I understand fighting for justice, this is bigger than one person. Where is the call for mandatory police/dash cameras? Where is the call for officers to go through crisis training so they’ll use better judgement like tasers over guns? Where is the call for speedy police investigations? All these things are far more important than burning down QuickTrips and looting Walmarts, especially when it’s the people in your COMMUNITY that have to wake up the next day and clean it all up. I really need our people to focus on the bigger picture.
