Killer Mike: "This opportunity in history is not gonna come in another 20 years"

[Nyan]

Killer Mike on Stephen Colbert

[highprincipleswork]

1. He says it so well!!!

[global1]

2. When I First Heard That A Rapper Named Killer Mike Endorsed Bernie .....

I didn't know what to think and expect. I'm so glad that Cobert had him on as a guest and it was very gracious of Cobert to ask him why he's Feeling The Bern. KM's answer was spot on and heartfelt. I really like this guy and wish he could get a whole lot more exposure in the next month before the Iowa caucus & NH primary. He needs to be heard by a whole lot more Americans with his support for Bernie. He can further fuel Bernie's quest for a Political Revolution.

[Paka]

3. K&R

Love Killer Mike. I may have to start listening to rap because of him.

[corkhead]

4. I am almost curious about what the inhabitants of my ignore list have been saying about him

I am sure they have come up with some bogus way to discredit him and what he is saying.

That was a great interview.

Like he said, Bernie has been on message for 50 years.

[Ed Suspicious]

10. It's usually a dismissive "Killer who?"

[Ned_Devine]

12. My ignore list just keeps getting longer.

It's making for such a peaceful existence here.

[ejbr]

5. He can speak for me

Any day!

[Enthusiast]

6. Kicked and recommended! Killer Mike did a great job!

[mnhtnbb]

7. He's right, IMO.

[SmittynMo]

8. If you havent seen it,

watch his interview with Bernie. It was exceptional, and was posted here on DU a month ago.

[tecelote]

9. Powerful!

[LiberalArkie]

11. 4:20 min is very good.

[Uncle Joe]

13. I believe Killer Mike laid it out exceptionally well.

Thanks for the thread, Nyan.

[jillan]

14. I got a kick out of how when Killer Mike first came out Colbert was checking him out from behind-but

By the end of the interview I think Stephen was feeling the Bern!

<- this little guy is saying "feel the Bern".

[RussBLib]

15. just saw this on my DVR

Pretty impressive. Mike's passion is easy to see.

Bernie ought to work this into some of his campaign material.

[JDPriestly]

16. Killer Mike is great. Just such a wonderful person. He really cares.

A word from an older white woman about why white people are now realizing how bad it really is for Black people.

I worked for a Black woman on a homeless project that served a lot of Black men. I "knew" intellectually what was going on but it was not a reality to me until I saw the video of the bully officer with Sandra Bland and the other videos.

The videos are making something we heard about, were told about but could not visualize or fathom very real to us.

I remember being stopped in my old jalopy in downtown LA. I remember the stunned look on the officer's face. He was expecting a person of color to be driving my car. And there I was a white woman. That look on the officer's face (happened a couple of times) made me curious about what was causing it. But when I saw the actual videos of the altercations between the officer and Sandra Bland and the other officers shooting black suspects, then I really understood how terrifying it must be if you are a person of color and get stopped by the police.

So that is why white people are responding now to the institutional violence against people of color but did not respond quite so much before. And that is true even for me who, you can tell from my work history, was never insensitive to the institutional discrimination against people of color.

The cell phone videos have made everything so real. That reality has touched the emotional reactions of those watching the videos in a deep way that just talking about the brutality could never do.

I'm not a rap music fan so I did not know about Killer Mike before seeing the recent videos of him.