Childish Gambino (Danny Glover) has never been shy about voicing his opinions when it comes to the discussions of race, race relations, or racial identity politics.
August 13th and 14th, Gambino used twitter as his medium to vent his poem that he wrote about wanting to be a white rapper and about police brutality.
The rapper’s posts stemmed from the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
He posted a lengthy string of tweets, touching on an array of subjects, from white privilege to the music industry to the public’s perception of young black males.
“Twitter activism is wack,” Childish Gambino wrote on Twitter August 14, 2014. “Marches don’t work anymore. Police should be forced to wear recording devices.”
Read the poem below:
“childish gambino is a white rapper”
i wanna be a white rapper.
i wanna be so white im the biggest rapper of all time.
i wanna be so white i can have a number one song with cursing and parents are fine with it.
i wanna be so white and so big i get eat dinner with the koch brothers.
i hope I’m so big and white i can go to clippers games and it not be a statement.
i hope I’m so white they let my friend out of jail sooner.
i hope I’m so big and white my cousin wasn’t shot and stabbed twice in the neck twice last month.
i wanna be so big. so white.
i wanna be so big and and so white that white dads feel comfortable sending their daughters,
who are home for the summer from Stanford, to my show.
and after the performance they come hang with me on my bus and we smoke and then we f–k to young dro
and she holds my face in her hands and her eyes roll back in her head.
then she goes home and her dad says “how was the show?” and she says “it was fun. they had lasers.”
i hope i become so big and and so white that G-Eazy will say “damn, this n—a is white” and everyone will agree and nod.
i want to be so big and white that people are scared. “what if this spreads?
what if everyone starts to get big and white? what if this works for everyone and everyone can experience this whiteness and this bigness?”
i hope i become too big and too white.
but i am just a black male.
i am a n—a.
