Lupe Fiasco thrown offstage for an anti war song

[tommy949]

http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/21/re...ti-obama-rant/
A perfect example of the government trying to silence anti war people

[RickyJ]

I'm not sure if Limbaugh and Glen Beck are racists though, they appear to just be obnoxious tools of the establishment.

The surprise isn't that they threw him off stage, the surprise is that he was ever allowed to get on stage to start with at a pre-inaguration event considering he has been a vocal critic of Obama for quite a while. Obviously they didn't screen their performers very well. Since this was a semi-private event, they had the right to take him off stage.

[Keith and stuff]

It looked like he was either trolling or just completely lost it on stage. He was up there, just barely dancing, not trying to sing or anything.

[jmdrake]

Lupe wasn't "trolling". He was protesting. There is a difference. And sure they had a right to throw him off stage. Part of civil disobedience is doing something that will piss the establishment off in order to bring attention to your cause. Whoever organized this wouldn't have minded a protest song if Lupe had just gone ahead and given the people a little more entertainment opium so they wouldn't pay attention to what's going on. But he wasn't trying to entertain. He was trying to send a message. Props to Lupe!

Oh, and here's the song he was singing before he simply started protesting. Powerful song.



Also I agree that Beck and Limbaugh aren't racists. That's just the best frame of reference Lupe's target audience can handle. One of the first thing some folks will say if you diss Obama is "You've just been listening to those right wingers that hate Obama because he's black". So Lupe got that red herring out of the way first. He used the same technique in reverse when criticizing Israel. (Criticize the jihadists in the first breath while criticizing Israel in the next). Quite a useful true-education technique actually.

[jmdrake]

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[tod evans]

I'd gladly read the words, but I'm not watching the video.

Kudos to this Lupe guy for standing up!

[Invi]

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/lupef...neversaid.html

Happy? lol.
I understand, though, I think. I'm not big on rap. Lupe Fiasco is one of few rappers I can deal with.

The hosts of the event put out a statement saying he was not removed for his protest, but rather because the audience was unhappy.
Not sure if I completely believe that. Then again, why the heck did they invite someone to perform who called Obama a terrorist a year ago to begin with?
htt p://hypervocal.com/news/2013/lupe-fiasco-inauguration-statement/

Anyway, HuffPo is the only place I've seen video of the event so far that wasn't from a cruddy cell phone.
htt p://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/21/lupe-fiasco-inauguration-concern_n_2518319.html

[jmdrake]

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/lupef...neversaid.html

Happy? lol.
I understand, though, I think. I'm not big on rap. Lupe Fiasco is one of few rappers I can deal with.

The hosts of the event put out a statement saying he was not removed for his protest, but rather because the audience was unhappy.
Not sure if I completely believe that. Then again, why the heck did they invite someone to perform who called Obama a terrorist a year ago to begin with?
htt p://hypervocal.com/news/2013/lupe-fiasco-inauguration-statement/

Anyway, HuffPo is the only place I've seen video of the event so far that wasn't from a cruddy cell phone.
htt p://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/21/lupe-fiasco-inauguration-concern_n_2518319.html

Audience was unhappy? From the video it looked like most were cheering him on. And as for why he got invited that's a good question. Someone was just looking at who's popular? People were thinking "Okay, there'll be a little Obama bashing and then we'll get some more entertainment?" I remember years ago reading a coming in the Marvel "Earth 2099" series (Hulk 2099 I think it was) where an entertainer was spouting anti establishment lyrics in her song. Then offstage she secretly confided to a friend "Don't worry. There are subliminal messages that say don't fight the system everything is fine." The establishment doesn't mind entertainers bucking the system somewhat as long as people don't actually wake up. Lupe is trying to get to the next step.

[jmdrake]

Good comment on HuffPo.

Thanks Lupe.. It's shocking to me how silent most democrats are about Obama's violation of the constitution and his drone bombing program. NDAA, FISA, Patriot act extension, renditions, bailouts, drone bombing, no prosecution of torturers, no prosecution of warantless wiretappers, wall street corruption handled with kids gloves, and prosecution of whistleblowers. I know some people speak out but it seems like the vast majority of people are willing to sacrifice moral principles for their political ideology. How sad.

[Tinnuhana]

Lupe takes on Bill Oh Really.