Sorry, Ms. Clinton: Outkast’s Big Boi Endorses Bernie Sanders - InTheseTimes

[WillyT]

Sorry, Ms. Clinton: Outkast’s Big Boi Endorses Bernie Sanders
But where Does Andre 3000 Stand?
BY Branko Marcetic - InTheseTimes
September 29, 2015

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In the course of his campaign, Bernie Sanders has unsurprisingly been receiving approval from a number of figures on the Left, including Noam Chomsky and newly minted British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Last Friday, however, he received an endorsement few, if any, saw coming—Outkast’s Big Boi.

Appearing on the Rap Radar Podcast last Friday, the Georgia-born rapper told hosts Elliott Wilson and Brian “B.Dot” Miller that he was behind the Independent from Vermont based on his stance against the unjust U.S. prison system.

“I’m for Bernie Sanders because he’s with prison reform and things like that,” he said. “I’m for anything that’s helping the good of people and helping people get out of poverty and getting people sentenced to these long unjust prison sentences out of jail and the legalization of marijuana, I’m for that.”

The surprise endorsement came after Big Boi was questioned about his earlier admission to the Huffington Post that he was a libertarian, and that he had voted for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson in the 2012 presidential election. At the time, he had couched his stance in similar views, explaining that he was for “anything that benefits the public and not just big banking”; the rapper now eschews the libertarian label and says he’s a “humanitarian.”

Big Boi’s backing of Sanders follows the Senator’s adoption of a wide-ranging racial justice platform, prompted by widely publicized campaign disruptions by the Black Lives Matter movement in August. Among other things, the platform proposes the demilitarization of the police, mandatory body cameras for law enforcement officers, the dismantling of private prisons, and bringing an end to the “War on Drugs.”

Sanders has received endorsements from a number of musicians already, including Killer Mike, Lil B, Julian Casablancas and Diplo, as well as less surprising names like Jackson Browne, Roger Waters, Neil Young and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. He’s also picked up endorsements from celebrities like Will Ferrell, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman and Daniel Craig, who donated $47,000 to a super-PAC which claims to support, but is not affiliated with, the Sanders campaign.

Donald Trump, the current GOP front-runner, has also received his share of celebrity endorsements...

Link: http://inthesetimes.com/article/18458/big-boi-outkast-bernie-sanders-endorsement-prison-reform

[Metric System]

1. Diplo's "endorsement": "I'd vote for you if I could be arsed."

[roguevalley]

2. good for him and his endorsement.

[think4yourself]

3. Reading that list

just makes me excited to think of creative projects and amazing collaborations.

Good stuff is coming!

[MindfulOne]

4. "Sorry Miss Clinton, I Am Fo-Reeal"!

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, WillyT.

[BlueWaveDem]

6. Why "sorry, ms. Clinton?"

I don't get it. Should she be upset that she isn't getting libertarian votes?

[ronnykmarshall]

7. Snap

[WillyT]

8. Nice Try.

[BlueWaveDem]

9. I still don't get it. What makes this significant?

Why would they use "Sorry, Ms. Clinton"?

[WillyT]

10. Editor's Choice... To Get More Eyes On The Story...

Writers many times do not get to write their own headlines.

[Report1212]

14. It's an Outkast lyric

Is everyone on this board 80 years old sometimes it feels that way

[oasis]

16. Hill got the snub from Noam Chomsky and Cornell West also.

Time to

[Enthusiast]

11. Glad to hear it!

[ancianita]

12. Hey Ya! Thanks for this post!

So why, oh, why, oh
Why, oh, why, oh, why, oh, why oh,
Are we still in denial when we know we're not happy here!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. Sorry

Not.impressed

[cui bono]

15. kick!

[Segami]

17. K&R!

[sabrina 1]

18. Bernie has the coolest supporters!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

19. "Is he for

real?"