The scoop: Black twitter started trending with the satirical hashtag #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery on this morning after a panel on MSNBC managed to blame rap the racist vid from SAE.
The Context: MSNBC’s Morning Joe crew said hip hop music’s “garbage” lyrics inspired an Oklahoma fraternity’s racist chant about lynching African-Americans.
The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol added “Popular culture becomes a cesspool, a lot of corporations profit off it, and then people are surprised when some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what they’ve been hearing.”
Joe went on to say “the kids who are buying hip hop… a white audience, and they hear this over and over again.”
So the Twitter squad quickly created a satrical hashtag to mock the ridiculousness they just spewed on national tv. See the best tweets below.
Tha Auction Block is Hot #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— tues (@2sdai) March 11, 2015
Enter the 13th Amendment Chambers #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery — Shareef Jackson (@ShareefJackson) March 11, 2015
#RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery “WHIP!!-There It Is”
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) March 11, 2015
Mama Said Sell You Off #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery — Director Sarcasmo (@WitTitsOrSTFU) March 11, 2015
Straight Outta Congo #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Open Mike Eagle (@Mike_Eagle) March 11, 2015
Get North Or Die Trying #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery — MUGGA MANZIEL (@GrandeMarshall) March 11, 2015
C.R.E.A.M. (Caucasians Rule Everything Around Me) #rapalbumsthatcausedslavery
— yah hello (@yahhello1) March 11, 2015
#RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery I was running through the field with my woes — Kanye East (@MuniraaOmar) March 11, 2015
All Dogz on Me. #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— Tananarive Due (@TananariveDue) March 11, 2015
.@morningjoe (Cotton) Gin and Noose #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery — CandaceTX (@CandaceTX) March 11, 2015
Long Live the Sugar Kane #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery
— zellie (@zellieimani) March 11, 2015
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