Posted on 09/10/2014 6:25:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Pharrell Williams told CNN's Don Lemon that President Barack Obama "needs to come down" to Ferguson, Missouri to see firsthand the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown.
"When your parents come into the room whether it's you or your cousin that knocked the vase down both of y'all sit up at attention," said the producer. "This is a deeper laceration in this country. This is going to be the longest hangover in race relations ever."
While Pharrell might not have been as vocal as his hip-hop peers following Brown's death, the Neptunes producer and The Voice judge still had some articulate thoughts on the matter. "What did I think of Ferguson? I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed in the way that it was handled from the government side. I think that that officer should be punished because that was excessive force."
"All those shots, where those shots were, the idea that that child laid in the ground [Brown's] a child, I know he's 6'2", 6'3", but he's a child he was laying in the ground for hours," Williams continued. "That kid didn't ask to be killed and so I feel like that officer should be punished, but at the same time, we got to start looking at our selves too because we are feeling hunted and we need to be able to avoid these things, and sometimes they're unavoidable."
Williams then tied the Brown shooting with the death of Trayvon Martin to the inherent issue with society today. When asked about a viral Facebook campaign that encouraged African-Americans to pull their pants up so they aren't racially profiled, Williams said, "Who is 'the man' to tell me how to wear my pants? Ain't nobody can tell me how to wear my pants, I'm a human being. And that's the thing: There are so many issues that keep getting lump-summed in the same issue, wearing your jeans on your butt or below your waistline has nothing to do with being black. You know how many white kids do that? That's not a black or white thing. Hoodies are not a black or white thing. It's an excuse."
Williams criticized the role of the media in the days after the Brown shooting. "I was disappointed that while we had so much peaceful protesting going on, what the media chose to cover most of all and highlight was the random few people that threw Molotov cocktails. The random people that had guns on them," Williams told Lemon. "This is the age of sound-biting."
If you bring that up you're a racist.
Couple of young school teachers were raped and murdered recently and 5 White people were murdered by a black ex con last week. So much for that frank discussion on race.
I’m thinking that if the idea of going to Ferguson had ever been floated at the White Hut, the Secret Service would have shot that down with a vigorous “Hell No!!!” You think that area has issues with excessive police presence now, just imagine a pre-POTUS visit advance team from the Secret Service and all the supporting characters.
Hell, there are 17 year olds at those places.
OMG! NO! They shoot blacks just for walking in the street there! Hell never make out alive!
Obama needs to stay out of race issues. He’s a divider, not a uniter.
Thanks, now I can sleep peacefully tonight.
Yup. That one set a new record for going down the memory hole.
True dat. Ferguson is DOOMED.
God help the USA if aliens put a bounty on Cretins.
It's a darn shame that JJ couldn't buy his kid a Senatorship from 'rat whiteys.
The reason why Lincoln was reburied in a steel cage under three tons of concrete.
So they couldn't dig him up and shoot him again.
I hear Liberia is nice this time of year.
Why, are there some Stores in Ferguson that haven’t been Looted yet?
I wanna shake your hand. Well said!
Noooooooo! Not pharrell!!!! He’s so hot!!!!!! STHeckU!!!!!! Don’t ruin your appeal!!!!
What an idiot, I must say.... Yes, this Precious Baby DID ASK TO BE KILLED, if he attacked an officer of the law. Who cares what his color is. If he threatened that officer, and the eye injuries didn’t pop out on their own, THEN YES, HE ASKED, “PLEASE SHOOT ME WITH DEADLY FORCE.”
Ohhhh, when they are good looking it hurts so much worse....
Shut up and sing.
I’m UnHappy.
Hell, I didn’t even HEAR that one. I did hear of the teen being shot in Utah around the same time as ferguson. White teen, black cop, guess the DOJ don’t pay the JustUs bros to appear at those.
I am no longer ‘Happy’.
Yes he did.
No he doesn’t! I live in St. Louis - this circus has gone on long enough. I can only imagine the hit on property values for those of us living in the city because of this thug.
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