Jay-Z thinks it was a huge setback for race relations when Donald Sterling was booted as owner of the Los Angeles Clippers because of his racist comments … because it sends racists the wrong message.
Jay appeared on Van Jones‘ news CNN show Saturday night and explained his thoughts … that when Sterling was thrown out of the franchise, it sent a message to racists to just continue that hateful thoughts, comments and actions on the QT.
Jay Z said, “Once you do that (boot him from the franchise), all the other closet racists just run back in the hole. You haven’t fixed anything. What you’ve done was spray perfume on a trash can.”
The mogul also took aim at Trump in an interesting way, saying even if the African American community is benefiting economically now, saying, “Treat me really bad and pay me well. It’s not going to lead to happiness … Everyone’s going to be sick.”
Trump fired back Sunday morning, saying, “Somebody please inform Jay Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!”
Transcript, via CNN:
VAN JONES, CNN: We have a President that comes and says every African country is a ‘shithole country,’ how does that land with you as a dad?
SHAWN “JAY-Z” CARTER: It is disappointing and it’s hurtful. It really is hurtful, more than so … everyone feels anger but after the anger, it’s real hurtful.
Because it’s looking down at a whole population of people and it’s so misinformed because these places have beautiful people and beautiful everything. This is the leader of the free world speaking like this.
On the other side, this has been going on. This is how people talk, this is how people talk behind closed doors. There was a moment when Donald Sterling had been exposed as a racist on this private phone conversation he was having and they took the team from him. Okay, that is one way to do it. But another way to do it is let him have his team and then let’s talk about it together, maybe some penalties.
Because once you do that, all the other closest racists run back in the hole. You haven’t fixed anything. What you’ve done is spray perfume on the trashcan. What you do when you do that is the bugs come and you spray something and you create a superbug. Because you don’t take care of the problem, you don’t take the trash out. You just keep spraying whatever over it to make it acceptable. Then as those things grow, you create a superbug.
And now we have Donald Trump, the superbug. Donald Trump is a human being, too. I just like want you — I’m being funny, I say that too. But somewhere along his lineage, something happened to him. Something happened to him and he is expressing it in this sort of way.
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