In a keynote address on freedom of speech, Run the Jewels rapper Killer Mike called on Americans to fight vehemently for those whose views they oppose.
argued that when laws are enacted to use government as a political force to quell dissent, “the first and worst cases are Black people.”and others whose music and lyrics have been used against them in court, notably describing how he saw a young lawyer “clumsily recite” Thug’s lyrics in court and then attempt to argue that lyrics the rapper “made up while stoned and high” should get him imprisoned for up to 40 years.
“That helped put me on a pathway to understanding why simply because I didn’t like [what someone said] was not not enough to shut people up. Simply because it made me uncomfortable was not enough to shut people up. And it was always wrong to use government [to shut people up],” he said. “Her firm hand made me understand that even in the bowels of slavery, Dred Scott understood that freedom of speech was a necessity,” he said. Scott and other abolitionists such as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Douglass, he argued, knew that free speech “was a right that we were not given by a government.”
He also warned about “the good guys “ — allies and activists — getting too comfortable and empowered by government, media or propaganda.
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