*Lupe Fiasco used his Instagram account to pen a three-part open letter to Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, expressing frustration over his notion of white supremacy.
The rapper takes the 21-year-old to school on his purported manifesto, which outlined in detail his supremacist beliefs against African Americans, and also disparages Jews, Hispanics, Asian Americans and military veterans.
“There is nothing about you biologically or physically that denotes an innate mode of supremacy. For that matter there is also nothing about you psychologically, philosophically, cognitively, academically, socially, architecturally, culturally or even financially that signifies a higher position above any other group,” Fiasco wrote. “And to be diplomatic there is nothing about you that denotes innate inferiority as well. So what you really are is something in the middle. You are regular.”
The Chicago-based rapper, born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, calls on all people to be “supreme as a spectrum of colors in collaboration.”
“One color does not dominate the other nor can it. Sure Steve Jobs was white. But the guy who built the computer was probably Chinese,” he wrote. “And the girl who wrote the programs for the computer is probably from Mumbai. And the raw materials that were used to make it were probably first pulled out of the ground by somebody in South Africa.”
Fiasco ended the post with parting words for “white regularity,” the term he argues is more deserved than white superiority.
“In closing white regularity (the race formerly known as white supremacy) I myself on behalf of my own black regularity salute you. Good luck with the northwest front I hear it’s beautiful in the spring and probably a strategic death trap if and when Yellowstone finally decides to blow up!”
Read all three parts of Lupe’s Instagram post below: