Cyrus Langhorne
New York rapper Azealia Banks is feeling a certain type of way about gun control. The hip-hop diva has stepped forward to speak out on last weekend’s publicized March For Our Lives rallies.
Banks went to Instagram Monday (March 27) with a since-deleted post about race playing a huge role in the gun control debate.
Not taking sides but you have to keep it 💯 on where Azealia Banks is coming from tho in regard to #MarchForOurLives 🤔 pic.twitter.com/d4KCNDWjr6
— SOHH (@sohh) March 27, 2018
Over the weekend, Fox News correspondent Tomi Lahren sparked some controversy by calling out the gun control rallies.
Simply being anti-NRA is not a solution. March FOR something, not just against everything.
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) March 24, 2018
Almost immediately, Twitter users wasted no time in flaming Lahren to pieces.
March for OUR LIVES
— Jeff 🦂 Smith (@Schmitocracy) March 24, 2018
The March is for saving lives, Tabletop Linen.
It’s a pretty big something.
— Yeah.Make.It.Stop. (@Cycle4) March 25, 2018
Literally called March FOR Our Lives.
— VoteVets (@votevets) March 24, 2018
You mean like for…..our lives? pic.twitter.com/EIEYT0tyrS
— Stick to…nothing (@StickToNothing) March 25, 2018
I mean she has to be intentionally missing the point here right? She can’t possibly be that clueless
— Cory Barghini (@cbarghini2) March 25, 2018
claiming they're not marching FOR something when the name is March FOR Our Lives….. pic.twitter.com/CnGM14kNeG
— jon "black lives matter" butter (@thejonbutter) March 24, 2018
She is just an empty shell, a talking head with no soul. Must be easily bribed & well compensated.
— Steven Amith (@StevenAmith) March 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/Frialish/status/977586666733953024
— 9 V O L T (@9_volt_) March 24, 2018
Hey Babe! Just an FYI here for ya…. "FOR" is right in the name of the March.
— Sausage Paw Molitor (@beaner_426) March 25, 2018
As a student who went to the march, I feel obligated to inform you that spending 5 hours in a crowd of thousands of people was to honor the victims, hear heartbreaking testimonies, advocate for comprehensive gun control, and call out inaction by politicians. You weren’t there. pic.twitter.com/KqZi4p5iLl
— Yara Hussein (@hussein_bolt_) March 25, 2018
You’re not even 10 years my senior. I respect your willingness to voice an opinion that many will oppose but had you still been in high school this is something that could have happened to you. This is not a left right issue this is an issue of human morals in our country.
— Yara Hussein (@hussein_bolt_) March 25, 2018
How long can we sit here not making it harder for people to obtain assault weapons that are not surely needed? The issue isn’t with the guns completely, but we can’t legislate people. We CAN control the guns. We’re fighting togethers against the epidemic. I think you should too.
— Yara Hussein (@hussein_bolt_) March 25, 2018
— Jake Holland (@jakeholla) March 25, 2018
After getting ripped by the Internet, Tomi came forward to clarify her initial remark.
As you March for “Our Lives” remember all the lives SAVED by a good guy with a gun.
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) March 24, 2018
It’s a shame schools don’t teach the U.S. Constitution anymore. Appreciation for our 2A is lost when history is forgotten and ignored in favor of “feelings” 101. #MarchForOurLives
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) March 24, 2018
I am proud to see the students using their First Amendment rights. That does not mean, however, that our Second Amendment rights go away. Free-speech is saying what you want to say but it’s also hearing what you don’t want to hear. #marchforourlives
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) March 24, 2018
Simply being anti-NRA is not a solution. March FOR something, not just against everything.
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) March 24, 2018
Yes, you have your First Amendment right to protest for gun control BUT that doesn’t negate MY First Amendment right to challenge your approach and it certainly doesn’t strip me of my Second Amendment right to protect and defend myself. #MarchForOurLives
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) March 25, 2018
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Pulling the Race Card!! This is why we can’t let people like Rosario Harper slide I guess because she works for a “Hip Hop” publication she feels as though she can patronize black people with the Racist “Race Card” comment like Racist whites do when we expose White Supremacy. These White Owned Hip Hop publications need to be exposed !!