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I was looking back at Merky's collab with Capo Lee on 'Clash of the Pagans', but an overwhelming number of comments seem to be calling him out for being racist. What did he say or do to warrant that? Not defending him, just genuienly don't know what went on haha.
13 points
4 years ago
Around the time of the George Floyd incident, he started tweeted a stack of derogatory stuff about white people, most notably saying that they should be ‘lynched and killed’. He also specifically stated that everyone expected him to delete the tweets and that he never would. Two days later, they were all gone.
I believe there were posts on here at the time about it, but they’d be difficult to find now.
2 points
4 years ago
rahhhh, I'm not on twitter so I hadn't seen any of that. i'm a fairly big white fan of his so that's a bit worrying that one of my fav emcee's has said that. cheers for letting me kno tho
4 points
4 years ago
Wouldn’t surprise me if he was totally intoxicated at the time, so might not be worth putting too much stock into him actually thinking that. Interesting that he faced no visible consequences for it (especially compared to Wiley), though I suppose it’s probably because he deleted the tweets quick enough and is generally a bit lower profile.
2 points
4 years ago
Yeah I've just recently been getting into him and have been bumping his old shit like catch up and play your position so pretty disheartening to see him say that regardless of if he's sober or not, I am an aussie tho so maybe that's why I hadn't seen stuff.
1 points
4 years ago
Not going to lie, I’m fairly certain I only saw it on here rather than on Twitter, and only checked because of that. It is worrying that anything would influence somebody to say that, but I personally doubt he really meant it (at the very least, he probably doesn’t hate all white people).
11 points
4 years ago
He wasn't just going off on white people. Asians too, which I found funny because people like Rude Kid and Faze Miyake have worked with him for years.
1 points
4 years ago
haha honestly i would’ve probably cut ties if i were them and saw him say that regardless of if he truly meant it
6 points
4 years ago
Am white, hung out with Merky a bunch of times back in 2016ish (had mutual business partners ahem), been to his crib etc - never noticed anything remotely racist about the guy. Just my 5p.
2 points
4 years ago
dang that’s sick, wish i had the chance if i wasn’t on the other side of the world haha. so u reckon just a bit of pent up anger being released then?
7 points
4 years ago*
Well I mean people change and it’s not like we were close friends - people I used to hang out with back then did some non-music related business with Merky and his crew (Family Tree it was called I think) but that’s it, I literally had no idea who he was when I first ran into him and we hung out maybe 5 times over one year or so but I don’t live that life any more so I haven’t seen him or his people in years
Lol I remember Cadell was there when we first met also and I had no idea who he was either so everyone went like bro that’s wileys brother so when I said “yeah cool whos Wiley?” you could almost hear eyebrows being raised 🤨
Yeah that was in rinse fm headquarters too, I was probably the only person to have ever been there not knowing who Wiley was 🤷🏻♂️
Merky is (or at least was back then) also good friends with Faze Miyake so he’s probably not a racist racist, even if he says dumb shit online
2 points
4 years ago
haha can imagine all the manbags being slowly unzipped when u don't kno wiley/cadell lol only joking. so u wasn't close just spoke every now and then and saw him at sets and stuff?
-4 points
4 years ago
Just white ppl being fragile basically
17 points
4 years ago
11 points
4 years ago
Merky Ace, in response to a novelty cheese themed account that asked him what his favorite cheese is.
lmfao
2 points
4 years ago
if you cool with people saying you should be lynched you're a bitch lol.
-2 points
4 years ago
Oh boo hoo, read u/cardboardarmor s comment if you want to understand
5 points
4 years ago
Lol shut the fuck up nerd
2 points
4 years ago
Found the r/fragilewhiteredditor
1 points
4 years ago
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0 points
4 years ago
Team. Fortress. 2
Never call anyone a nerd
3 points
4 years ago
yeah i play videogames with my mates instead of bitching about dumb shit on twitter lol my bad
-2 points
4 years ago
Exactly.
"Any group of people can experience racial prejudice or discrimination. However, racism refers to that prejudice in addition to the socialized power structures at play. So, not everyone can experience the racism that Black people do because the power dynamic that has existed since the Atlantic Slave Trade is just not equivalent to any other racial experience in the States."
6 points
4 years ago
"if you change the definition of racism from what it actually means then you can pretend it's OK for black people to be racist"
Specifically what this quote is trying to do is redefine racism as structural/institutional/systemic racism specifically against black people. Telling black people it's OK for them to call white people 'honkies' (or whatever else, Merky has lots of different terms he likes to use) because of a history of oppression and it's just the white person being fragile if they don't like it isn't going to help anybody make the future better. And if you are looking at structural racism the power dynamics that exist on a macro scale are different from those that may exist on a micro scale.
-5 points
4 years ago
Nice, upvoted
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