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Transcripts for MSNBC The ReidOut 20240604 23:07:00

And it doesn t stop with just co-opting black oppression. no, no, they re trying it with hip-hop culture too. remember back in the 1990s, it was a normal thing for rappers to name check trump as a symbol for wealth and power. nelly, jung jock, and kanye, who later as the maga hat wearing ye, would be used by trump to convince black voters he wasn t racist. trump and the oval office even pardoned kodak black and lil wayne. see, he s on your side, blacks. the irony is his hip-hop avatar was based on a media lie like cribs and the apprentice. trump was never a billionaire. he just inherited a lot of money, lost it, declared bankruptcy five times and still got bank loans because he made himself famous. and his track record for racism goes back to the 1970s. in that sense, he was doing what some rappers do, playing a role. and trump s electoral strategy to win over black voters or at least pretend to, to make white ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The ReidOut 20240604 23:16:00

Criminals. no, we go with those that we feel are falsely being criminalized and tried and cannot defend themselves. secondly, we deal with the fact that on the other side, people that have done crimes against us rarely have been punished until of late with george floyd and ahmaud arbery. but thirdly, there is a silver lining. if they raise a lot of money on his mugshot, with 91 counts, let s see if they raise a lot of money when they put an orange suit on him if he is in fact convicted. yes. i do want to play really quick a tape for you, because this was another person who trades on black culture, exhibits anti-blackness, brags about trying to get don lemon fired, but then he wants to be in hip-hop. i don t want to play his silly rap because eminem has already dealt with him. here s vivek ramaswami back when he was pretending to be a regular person. back in a year you will remember, rev. here s the clip of him on hardball. hardball college tour, actually. ....

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