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Ready to call 50 Cent an “Uncle Tom”?
In an interview with XXL, the rapper gives his politically incorrect take on SterlingGate:
“Donald Sterling, I think, is interesting. To be honest with you, I couldn't get past the concept of looking at an older man talking to a woman that he's in love with and making probably the biggest compromise ever, saying, 'If you like them, be with them, sleep with them, just don't embarrass me."
What?! No, chest-pounding rant on how “this racist must go!” No call to organize a Washington D.C. “Million Fan March” to chant, “ No justice, no peace”?
Don’t tell President Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee, Adam Silver, the NAACP, the NBA, the media, most of the country and just about the entire “black community.” Move over Clarence Thomas, Alan West, and Herman Cain -- but there may be another an “Uncle Tom” is our midst. His name is Curtis James Jackson III, aka 50 Cent.
The rapper elaborated: "[Sterling’s] saying to you that, ‘There's other people around, that I’m being embarrassed by, that think and feel the way that I feel.' And now, you got one person that you're pointing to, penalizing for that, when he's actually saying at that point, 'Just don't embarrass me,' meaning, 'There's other people that feel exactly like me here to be embarrassed by it.'"
To summarize the rapper’s opinion: Old jealous billionaire, who didn’t want to be “embarrassed” by mistress, gets “betrayed” by a woman “he’s in love with.” And for this NBA bans Sterling -- and forces him to sale his team?
50 Cent resisted giving a self-pitying tirade on Sterling’s alleged “racism,” and refused to join the circus calling for his head. Recall Magic Johnson’s initial advice to Sterling was to “call your lawyer” and do a “deal with girlfriend” to “make this go away.”
Days later, Johnson assumed the role of victim and demanded the ouster of the “racist” Sterling. 50 Cent thinks Magic got it right the first time.
One poll showed that while 59 percent of whites support a Sterling ban, 77 percent of blacks do so. Given this overwhelming support in the black community for Sterling’s ban and forced sale, how long before someone calls Fitty an “Uncle Tom”?
Music critics say the rapper, an ex-drug dealer who was reportedly once shot nine times, possesses “street cred.” After Fitty’s bold against-the-tsunami-of-public opinion stance on Sterling, he’ll need it.
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