The more issues and dilemmas that occur in the Black community, the more Black entertainers are taking leadership and speaking out.
David Banner happens to be amongst the group who’s not afraid to vocalize his powerful beliefs and perspectives concerning Black culture. The former “Get Like Me” rapper sat down with the ladies of Sister Circle on MLK’s birthday (Jan 15th) to discuss the negative effects integration has had on Black people as a unit.
“I personally think that integration was the worst thing that ever happened to Black people even more than slavery”, he explained. “Black people gave up ownership, we don’t even have any say so over how we teach our kids or the way that our children wear their hair when they go to public schools in a lot of cases.”
He continued, “We spent so much time trying to integrate we forgot who we were.”
However, this isn’t Banner’s first-time expressing his views on white supremacy and the cons of integration. In a 2015 interview with “Vlad TV” Banner further expressed that Black people have integrated into “nothingness”.
“Black people, we have okayed everything down to a point where our culture is gone. We have been socialized and we have integrated ourselves into nothingness,â he told Vlad. “At least with slavery, we knew what we were fighting against. Now we feel like we are part of something that was designed to enslave us.â
