Here’s The ‘Gangsta Rap’ Song Joe Scarborough Blames For Racist SAE Chant
The emergence of video featuring University of Oklahoma fraternity members singing a racist song aboard a school bus has shocked many people this week, but viewers of Wednesday’s Morning Joe were treated to an even bigger shock when the crew decided who was really to blame: black people. More specifically, Joe, Mika, and the gang blamed rappers like Waka Flocka Flame, who had the nerve to be all offended by the chant “There will never be a nigger at SAE, you can hang ’em from a tree but they’ll never sign with me, there will never be a nigger at SAE.”
Actually, Waka Flocka wasn’t so much offended as he was “disgusted,” as he told CNN’s Brianna Keilar, because he had performed for the frat and been welcomed like a brother:
“I feel like I was part of the frat. I felt like I was a frat boy in the woods. I really felt like I was down with the fraternity. I was SAE. You couldn’t tell me no different. For me to see that video, I was like, that’s what y’all doing behind closed doors? That disgusted me. I really can’t blame the kids. I feel like that’s passed down.”
Yeah, Waka Flocka, it was passed down. By you, if Morning Joe‘s performance art interpretation of a jar of mayonnaise is any indication. Fighting their way through the perpetual white confusion over who gets to say the n-word, Mika Brzezinski kicked things off by denigrating Wacka Flocka’s work by calling them “songs, I guess you would call them,” and the entire panel engaged in an extended riff on the extremely disrespectful and condescending pastime of mocking the name Waka Flocka performs under. You know, just like they do with John Wayne never.
But then, they took things a bit further than simply drawing a willfully dishonest false equivalency, and actuallly suggested a direct causal relationship between the racist chant and the rap music that rappers like Waka Flocka perform:
William Kristol: “Popular culture becomes a cesspool, and people are surprised that some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what they’ve been hearing…”
Joe Scarborough: “It’s a white audience, and they hear this over and over again. so do they hear this at home? Well, chances are good, no, they heard a lot of this from guys like this who are now acting shocked.”
So, they’re not just saying that rappers saying the n-word is just as bad as white “rednecks” saying it (as they did earlier in the show with the Urban League’s Marc Morial as a guest), they are saying that the SAE frat kids directly learned this from listening to hard-core rap:
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Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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viva_democracy March 11th, 2015 at 21:36
Except they’re singing it to the tune of ‘If You’re Happy And You Know It’ which is often sung in children’s church classes, so I blame Jeezus.
Warman1138 March 11th, 2015 at 21:44
That was dumb and ill conceived and I don’t watch Morning Joe, too smarmy.
CgntvDssdnt March 12th, 2015 at 00:47
Morning Joe, Bill Kristol. blaming white racism on black culture. stay classy fellas.
RGlenCheek March 23rd, 2015 at 14:49
Yeah, cause freedom of speech means whites shut up and stay in their place
Lol, I posted a link to a rap song that illustrates Morning Joes point but the editors deleted it, roflmao