Why do people hate talib kweli

That's not at all me endorsing him as a candidate. And Kweli, one of the most politically active rappers in the industry and a civil rights activist, wasn't ready to endorse Hillary Clinton or anyone else.

His past advocacy on issues related to mass incarceration, immigration and economic equality regularly makes waves with liberal political circles. Read More. Campaigns like Sander's and Clinton's are aware of the broad reach that some hip-hop artists have and they have capitalized on endorsements from the hip-hop community in the past. On Sander's run-ins with BlackLivesMatter. When asked about Sanders' tense interactions with "Black Lives Matter" demonstrators, who shut down a Sanders event in Seattle last summer, Kweli said that when he first watched what happened he "thought it was rude.

He's not the worst person. I even tweeted I'm not mad at Bernie Sanders at all," Kweli said. Not mad at Bernie Sanders at all. When you respond to someone who posts lies about you, that is not harassment. The dispute began on 9 July after Kweli responded to a tweet Moody had made about another tweet listing rappers married to black women, including Kweli.

He accused her of hypocrisy over her race comments, and of sympathising with white supremacists. Moody was subsequently targeted by other users, who made threats of violence and sexual abuse against her on Twitter, which she reposted with screenshots.

All rights reserved. Rapper Talib Kweli was permanently suspended from Twitter last week after what the service has described as "repeated violations" of its rules of conduct. Kweli announced on July 23 that he would be leaving the often quarrelsome social media platform for "greener pastures" and moving to the membership-based platform Patreon. I exposed a lot of bigots and trolls and made a lot of wonderful friends. According to Jezebel , Kweli abandoned Twitter after being suspended on July 23 following unspecified violations of the platform's rules after he reportedly spent "two weeks in mentions of Black women who characterized his behavior as harassment.

Billboard spoke with both Kweli and Moody about their heated exchange -- and the fallout. Though Twitter would not detail what led to the suspension, Jezebel reported that it came after Kweli began "incessantly" tweeting at Moody, for 12 hours in one day she reported, chronicling "over tweets directed at me.

Even after being blocked SEVERAL hours ago"; Moody provided Billboard with dozens of screenshots of tweets from the rapper, as well as a video in which he discusses their disagreement.

In a statement to Billboard , a Twitter spokesperson confirmed, "The account has been permanently suspended after repeated violations of the Twitter rules. Twitter's purpose is to serve the public conversation.

Violence, harassment and other similar types of behavior discourage people from expressing themselves, and ultimately diminish the value of global public conversation. Our rules are to ensure all people can participate in the public conversation freely and safely. After de-activating it twice before himself, Kweli tells Billboard that Twitter suspended his account after he posted screenshots of what he said were threatening comments against himself, his mother, children and family allegedly from Moody's supporters, which included phone numbers from what he suspected were "burner" phones.

Twitter said the permanent suspension was due to multiple violations of the service's abusive behavior rule , which makes it clear that users cannot "engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so. The original blow-up centered on a video from early July in which rappers, including 50 Cent and Lil Wayne, talked about dating "exotic" women, which resulted in a Twitter user asking which rappers, besides Snoop Dogg, are married to Black women.

When a user listed Jay-Z, 2 Chainz, Gucci Mane, Chance the Rapper and Talib as among the men on that list, Moody weighed in on July 9, saying, "literally almost all of them are married to lightskinned women but that's a conversation for another day.