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Archae

(46,347 posts)
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 02:08 PM Aug 2019

I just read some information about "ASAP Rocky..."

Seems he's been selling crack since he was 15.
(Wikipedia)

Has he stopped?
I don't know.

I just tried listening to some of his "work."
It's not even good "gangsta rap."

So why is Trump doing all this for the guy?

Obviously, so he can then brag about "not being a racist."

Pure cynical corrupt politics.

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tblue37

(65,488 posts)
2. A celebrity who praises him--a black one no less, so he can point to his black friend to refute
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 02:15 PM
Aug 2019

charged of racism--asked him to intervene. It's always personal for Needy Amin.

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
4. The Swedish Police would not be holding him if there wasn't a really good reason
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 03:11 PM
Aug 2019

But hey, Kim Kardashian knows best and asked her buddy Trump to help out...

JCMach1

(27,574 posts)
6. if you watch the tapes, he and his entourage were being
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 03:16 PM
Aug 2019

clearly harassed by the so called victims here...

He should have been cleared quickly.

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
7. The fact that he wasn't leaves me to believe that with out all the details there are
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 03:22 PM
Aug 2019

...other reasons he wasn't cleared quickly and why he has been held so long.

JCMach1

(27,574 posts)
8. Namely what amounts to a racist overzealous
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 05:57 PM
Aug 2019

Prosecutor probably trying to make a name... Happens here too

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
9. You don't have any facts to make that assumption or allegation
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 07:50 PM
Aug 2019

Do you have any proof that the Prosecutor handling this case has any history of racist tendencies or bias?

While there are many racists in this world of all faiths, races, genders, cultures etc. - I can assure you that the majority of Scandinavians I know (including Police) are not racist. They do not have the same problem of institutional racism that we do in our country and ironically, ask any Black person who has spent much time traveling, visiting and living in Sweden, Denmark etc and they will tell you that they don't feel or experience what they do in the US in terms of discrimination. That is not to say there aren't some racists or white nationalists (they have been increasing in recent years, including throughout Germany) but in fact the Swedish men and women I know love Black men and women and find them beautiful.

What Swedes do not tolerate is drug trafficking, sex trafficking and sexual crimes or crimes of violence. From anyone - regardless of race or religion.

keithbvadu2

(36,917 posts)
11. Basically Trump said: 'Send him back.'
Sun Aug 4, 2019, 12:43 AM
Aug 2019

The U.S. government warned Sweden of "negative consequences" as it advocated for rapper ASAP Rocky during his trial for assault charges in Stockholm this week, according to a pair of letters released by the Swedish Prosecution Authority.

Rocky was released from jail on Friday pending the verdict, with President Donald Trump celebrating the news on Twitter. "It was a Rocky Week, get home ASAP A$AP!" Trump said.

Basically Trump said: 'Send him back.'

Do ‘the Google’ for - ASAP Rocky lyrics - to see what Trump and his republicans want back in America.

Here are some of his lyrics:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142349495

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