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Whenever things get tense, not too many artists are willing to speak up about their own personal opinions on current social issues. For newer artists, it’s understandable why many would rather take a vow of silence than potentially hurt their budding career with something they said. However, veterans in the music industry often speak more freely because they’ve already gained a satisfying following. During hard times, we can always look forward to insightful words from Killer Mike.
After sharing his thoughts on the horrific Charleston shooting, Killer Mike recently shared his thoughts with Fader on the call to remove the Confederate flag that currently hangs over South Carolina’s Statehouse. He admitted that he doesn’t have a problem with people who choose to have the flag on their homes, their cars or even their shirts, but he feels that it definitely should not be flying over any city, state building or school. “You do not fly the flags of losers over the winner’s country,” said Mike.
An army took on the Union, an army lost. That nation, the Confederate states, lost. And if that flag—in terms of publicly or state-sponsored things, or local or county or city-sponsored things—should be forever wiped from the memory, because that side lost. If your great great grandfather participated on the Confederate side and you hold some sentimental value to that, and you want to fly the flag and hang their picture up in your home, that’s fine. But it should not be on anything that taxpayers pay for, because taxpayers are a part of the Union not the Confederacy. It has no place in the building, no place on the building, no place around the building.
Read his full statement here.
