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Hey Ari, I'm curious — which of Delgado's lyrics were "anti-police and anti-women"?

I mean, if you're gonna reduce a Rhodes scholar and Harvard Law attorney down to his rap career, did you even listen to his music, or are you just *assuming* it was "anti-police and anti-women"?
It's remarks like this one from @AriFleischer that show *why* it's racist to reduce Delgado down to his rap career.

They don't even have specific criticisms of his lyrics! They just say bc he rapped, he *must* have degraded women. That's all a Black music genre is capable of.
"Look, my criticism of Delgado's rap career has nothing to do with race. I'm just saying that because he sang in a genre dominated by people of color, he must have been glorifying sexism and crime. What's racist about that?"
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I understand the impulse, this is obviously ungirded w/racism, but also...what if he *was* only a rapper? Why would that automatically make him unqualified?

The answer is, it doesn’t.
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