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Lupe Fiasco’s Open Letter On White Supremacy

Posted on June 22nd, 2015
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Lupe Fiasco

Lupe Fiasco is certainly a man of concepts and has never been shy from saying how he feels about various world issues. Today, the Tetsuo & Youth rapper opens up on what he thinks on the idea of white supremacy.

Lupe took to Instagram to write a long emotional three-part piece letter about the Charleston shooting massacre last week, addressing the shooter, Dylan Roof, who shot and killed 9 people inside the Emanuel AME Church.

The Chi-town native, starts off his letter with “Dear White Supremacy, First of all you are not really that supreme, While throughout history White Supremacy it must be admitted you have achieved some very dominant positions. These positions have been gained mostly through force or some biological agent such as disease that did a lot of the dirty work for you in advance. I mean anybody can use force on an unarmed populous and anybody can have smallpox. Not judging, just wanted to point out that having a disease that native folks aren’t immune to because they’ve never seen it doesn’t make you strategically smart or tactically superior, just kind of sick. And these dominant positions don’t really stand up to the test of time that long either.”  

He continues, “There is nothing about you biologically or physically that denotes an innate mode of supremacy. For that matter there is also nothing about you psychologically, philosophically, cognitively, academically, socially, architecturally, culturally or even financially that signifies a higher position above any other group. And to be diplomatic there is nothing about you that denotes innate inferiority as well. So what you really are is something in the middle. You are regular. White Regularity is congruent to all other forms of regularity i.e. Black, Brown, Etc etc.”

In addition to the letter, Lupe also says, “if you wanted to get really ironic and meta about it, White Supremacy has to validate it’s own identity based solely on its relationship to other races! I mean now that’s what I would call joined at the hip. Without us there is no white supremacy because there would be nothing to be supreme over! That sounds so stupid but sometimes the truth is stupid. Stupid like a fox. And no not stupid like a Fox News I mean the real fox. The animal. In closing white regularity (the race formerly know as white supremacy) I myself on behalf of my own black regularity salute you. Good luck with the northwest front I hear it’s beautiful in the spring and probably a strategic death trap if and when Yellowstone finally decides to blow up! Yours Truly Wasalu “Lupe” Jaco”

From the looks of this three-piece letter, it seems like Fiasco was responding to Dylan Roof, manifesto which surfaced the internet last week, after the shooting.

You can take a look at his Instagram images on the next page and let us know what you think in the comments. – Lupe Looove

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