White House, MSM Ignore 2005 Interview Where Rapper Speaks Out Against Interracial Relationships

What the MSM and the White House did just a few minutes ago while asking and responding to questions about rapper Common being invited by Michelle Obama for a night of poetry is, as always, one in the same. Rather than focus on a 2005 interview where Common openly opposed interracial relationships, everything’s being couched in the safer (for Obama) arena of “artistic license” — as just another Right v. Left battle in the culture war.

Common at the NAACP Image Awards

While Big Hollywood reported on the Common story when it broke, there was no editorializing until I came across this particular interview. I do get that artists/rappers/singers create characters in their work and as a defender of artistic expression, I had no real energy towards the issue until I came across the interview. An artist using his or her work to express the unacceptable is one thing. An individual openly declaring opposition to interracial relationships is naked racism and something else entirely.

For obvious reasons, however, no one wants to talk about what Common the man said in an interview, they want to focus on Common the artist. Watch what both the Washington Post and the White House do here…

The Washington Post:

Common is one of many artists expected at the White House’s “An Evening of Poetry” Wednesday evening, but his invitation has started a minor culture war, in light of lyrics like “Burn a Bush ’cause for peace he don’t push no button.” And also stuff we can’t print here.

But Carney retorted that Common is “known as a socially conscious hip-hop artist” who has been previously celebrated, he added pointedly, “by a lot of mainstream organizations and fair-and-balanced organizations like Fox News, which has described that music as very positive.” Common, he said, “has done a lot of good things. You can oppose some of what he’s done and appreciate some of the other things he’s done.”

“Appreciate some other things he’s done”?

You mean like this….

COMMON: I don’t think there’s anything the matter with somebody loving somebody from another race but it’s almost like a stereotype that if you’ve got dreadlocks you go out with a white girl. just feel like, as black men, we do have to be aware that, yo, every time we step out with some woman it’s setting an example for our daughters and it’s also representing something for our mothers. If you can’t really love your own, how can you really love others?

TOUCH: So you don’t agree with mixed race relationships?

COMMON: I disagree with them. It’s a lack of self-love. It’s a problem.

TOUCH: Have you ever dated outside your race?

COMMON: Nah, not dated [giggles].

TOUCH: Have you slept with anybody outside your race?

COMMON: Yeah, I definitely have.

The Obama White House is opening the People’s House to a man openly opposed to interracial relationships and the MSM is all but shrugging over it.

Did I wake up in 1850?