From: Steve (scatanzaro4_at_cox.net)
Date: 2004-10-15 16:03:30
If Osama bin Laden ever buys a rap album, he'll probably start with a CD
by KRS-One.
The hip-hop anarchist has declared his solidarity with al Qaeda by
asserting that he and other African-Americans ''cheered when 9/11
happened,'' reports the New York Daily News.
The rapper, real name Kris Parker, defiled the memory of those who died
in the terrorist attacks as he spouted off at a recent New Yorker
Festival panel discussion.
''I say that proudly,'' the Boogie Down Productions founder went on,
insisting that, before the attack, security guards kept black people out
of the World Trade Center ``because of the way we talk and dress.
'So when the planes hit the building, we were like, `Mmmm -- justice.'
''
The atrocity of 9/11 ''doesn't affect us [the hip-hop community],'' he
said. ''9/11 happened to them, not us,'' he added, explaining that by
''them'' he meant ``the rich . . . those who are oppressing us. RCA or
BMG, Universal, the radio stations.''
Parker also sneered at efforts by other rappers to get young people to
vote.
''Voting in a corrupt society adds more corruption,'' he added.
``America has to commit suicide if the world is to be a better place.''
......
outta here