{"id":1294,"date":"2015-07-02T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:50:38","slug":"geraldo-rivera-off-course-on-kendrick-lamars-new-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"Geraldo Rivera Off Course on Kendrick Lamar&#8217;s new release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Fox News\u2019 \u201cThe Five\u201d Monday night, Geraldo Rivera criticized Kendrick Lamar\u2019s performance at the BET awards \u2014 in which he rapped about police brutality in \u201cAlright\u201d \u2014 saying that his lyrics are \u201cnot helpful, to say the least.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis is why I say that hip-hop has done more damage to young African-Americans than racism in recent years,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is exactly the wrong message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cmessage\u201d in question was Lamar\u2019s line that \u201cWe hate the po-po\/Wanna kill us dead in the street fo sho.\u201d According to Geraldo \u2014 who previously stated that Trayvon Martin\u2019s hoodie was as responsible for his death as George Zimmerman \u2014 lyrics like those \u201cconflate what happened in this church in South Carolina with these tragic incidents involving excessive use of force by cops is to equate this racist killer with these cops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is so wrong,\u201d he said, \u201cso counterproductive \u2014 it gives exactly the wrong message. It doesn\u2019t recognize that a city like Baltimore, which is just 7 percent the size of New York, has just as many murders as New York.\u201d<br \/>\nMustachioed Fox News commentator\/Al Capone vault raider\/hoodie-blamer Geraldo Rivera, is not a fan of Kendrick Lamar. Rivera spoke out against the rapper following his performance at the BET Awards earlier this week, and opined that \u201chip-hop has done more damage to young African-Americans than racism in recent years.\u201d Lamar, being a smart person, disagreed with Rivera\u2019s blanket statements, and responded to his criticism during a Thursday appearance on TMZ Live:<br \/>\nThis is our music. This is us expressing ourselves. Rather [than] going out here and doing the murders myself, I want to express myself in a positive light the same way other artists are doing. Not going out in the streets, go in the booth and talking about the situation and hoping these kids can find some type of influence on it in a positive manner. Coming from these streets and coming from these neighborhoods, we\u2019re taking our talents and putting \u2018em inside the studio.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qambx3W6znc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nGeraldo Rivera does not understand anything about why black people in general are damaged.  It is not the music because if you remember the music of the times when blacks took it the streets way more than today, the music was all about love and relationships. <\/p>\n<p>There was no profanity and everything was well choreographed and at the same time it really influenced blacks at that time.  Nonetheless, black panthers, Black Muslims, SNCC, US and other organizations were part of the culture that found it necessary to fight for civil liberties, no different than today&#8217;s youth wanting respect from a racist society.<\/p>\n<p>Geraldo Rivera should keep his views to himself until he is ready to promote positive change and use his media influence for good instead of spreading senseless banter.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SNRYhdexW_w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fox News\u2019 \u201cThe Five\u201d Monday night, Geraldo Rivera criticized Kendrick Lamar\u2019s performance at the BET awards&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,14,13,7,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-protest","category-equal-opportunity","category-first-amendment-rights","category-music","category-racism","category-satire","category-social-change","wpcat-4-id","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-14-id","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}