In an apparent, if convoluted, nod to her ethnic heritage, popular rap artist Azealia Banks recently led a Playboy interviewer on a journey of America-bashing that explained her jaded view of the nation. The 23-year-old performer’s remarks took a particularly disenfranchised tone when she was asked whether she wants to leave the U.S.
“Yes,” she exclaimed, launching into a laundry list of grievances she has about the nation.
“I hate everything about this country,” she asserted. “Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, and these racist conservative white people who live on their farms.”
She went on to describe her vision of the country as “[t]hose little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma – that’s really America.”
Adding some context to her controversial statements, Banks explained that she feels a deep connection to her roots and therefore cannot abide American customs.
“When you rip a people from their land,” she alleged, “from their customs, from their culture – there’s still a piece of me that knows I’m not supposed to be speaking English, I’m not supposed to be worshipping Jesus Christ. All this s—t is unnatural to me.”
As TheBlaze pointed out, this is far from Banks’ first foray into the realm of controversial remarks. Following a grand jury’s decision not to indict the Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot Michael Brown last year, Banks reacted on Twitter.
“I know it’s so f—ked up,” she wrote, “but these things just make me feel such a general hatred for all straight white men. It’s a burning anger.”
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