KRS udsender ny pressemeddelelse…
Rapperen KRS-One er i øjeblikket, som vi tidligere har omtalt, under kraftig mediebevågenhed pga. hans kontroversielle udtalelser omkring terrorangrebet d.9/11. Flere medier har, grundet disse udtalelser, stemplet KRS som ”Al Qaeda-tilhænger”, men nu tager han altså bladet fra munden og svarer på tiltale:
”Let me be clear and we can refer to the audiotape. At NO POINT during the panel discussion did I EVER declare solidarity with Al Qaeda and for the Daily News to print that is not only irresponsible… it's dangerous!”
Endnu engang fremhæver rapperen, at mediernes udlægning af historien er taget ud af sammenhæng. Det var ikke hans mening at disrespektere nogen, hverken de døde eller de afdødes familier og venner. KRS siger:
”I apologize to anyone I may have offended… It was a terrible tragedy, which still hurts many of us. My point was that we´ve been bombing other peoples “world trade center” for many years, and 9/11 could have been a repercussion of that fact. It should have been a wake up call!”
KRS uddyber at han føler at folk, i stedet for at fokusere på hvad der skete d. 9/11, hellere skulle se på hvorfor det skete.
”The towers were chosen because they represented the financial pockets of America… I DO NOT believe in killing innocent people for any reason, I do NOT appreciate what happened on 9/11, but I also don´t appreciate the hundreds of thousands women and children who sit in hospitals or graves in Iraq, Baghdad, Fallujah, and other cities in the Middle East and around the world because of the bombs that Americans dropped on them in an attempt to kill “terroists”. Is that anti-American?”
Udover dette gør KRS det også klart, at han på ingen måde ser ned på det arbejde, som Russel Simmons og P.Diddy laver omkring at få folk til stemmeurnerne:
”I highly commend Russel Simmons and Sean ”P. Diddy” Combs for the work they are doing. The reason I think they (voters) should register, is so that we can depend on a high voter turnout when we do in fact find someone who represents us.”
Og til dem som mener KRS´ karriere er nedadgående (heriblandt Daily News), afslutter han:
”I am preparing to release my forthcomming book ”The Gospel of Hiphop” soon!"...
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