Rapper Killer Mike tells theMarquiseF that black Americans deserve their fair share of the marijuana industry
After President Trump picked a fight last month with Baltimore and its Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, describing the city as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” Rapper and Atlanta entrepreneur Killer Mike tried to keep his focus on the larger picture.
“It’s not about how that comment hits me. It’s about how policy has hit the African-American community the last 55 years or so,” Render said, adding, “We’ve never gotten the chance to have the equal life that we deserve. We’ve never been given full rights. We’ve never been given full opportunity.” “For those cities where these things are happening, including sections of Atlanta, my question becomes, How do we change the system to provide opportunity?” Render said.
“If we know a wave of legalization and decriminalization is coming for marijuana and we [African-Americans] make up 15 percent of this country, we should be a hard 15 percent of the multibillion-dollar marijuana industry,” he said. “We have paid with sweat, with labor in jails, federal, state and local municipalities. There’s no reason we should not be guaranteed 15 percent.”
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