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Jay-Z got actively involved in politics during the 2008 presidential campaign, where he supported increased voter participation and helped send voters to polling stations.[132] He was an early supporter for the candidacy of Illinois senator and subsequent U.S. president Barack Obama, performing for free in voter-drive concerts financed by the Democrats' campaign.[133] He also became acquainted with Obama himself, who stated "Every time I talk to Jay-Z, who is a brilliant talent and a good guy, I enjoy how he thinks. That's somebody who is going to start branching out and can help shape attitudes in a real positive way."[134] During the 2010 mid-term elections' campaign, Jay-Z appeared, along with other artists, in an ad prepared by the HeadCount organization, urging voters, and especially younger ones, to register and vote.[135] In May 2012, Jay-Z announced his endorsement of President Obama's support of same-sex marriage for gay couples[136] and participated in his re-election campaign.[137]
Civil rights activist Harry Belafonte has been openly critical of Jay-Z and Beyoncé in their relatively safe political stances, saying that they "have turned their back on social responsibility" in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.[138] A Syracuse University finance professor[139] is also of this view, pointing to Jay-Z's only giving $6,000 to charity after making $63 million in 2012. He also voiced that the hip-hop mogul likely would never have come out in support of gay marriage had President Obama not first taken the position.[140]
Originally posted by butcherguy
He probably had an automatic pistol on his person that accepts a magazine holding more than ten rounds of ammunition.
But those gun laws that Congress is hashing out right now are for us little people.... Not Jay-Z, Obama, Feinstein, Schumer and the rest.
Originally posted by gorgon8819
I just noticed Jay Z a very successful American rapper and convicted drug dealer sitting front row at the Obama inauguration. Jay Z's real name Shawn Corey Carter has been arrested for dealing in crack coc aine. ( Proof is available all over the internet) He even rapped about it numerous times. He was also arrested in a stabbing incident in which he plead guilty, he received 3 years probation.
Bush was a self-admitted and well established coke-head for at least SOME of his life with a real love for the bottle on top of it. Obama was an unrepentant dope smoker in his college days .
Originally posted by AwakeinNM
Originally posted by butcherguy
He probably had an automatic pistol on his person that accepts a magazine holding more than ten rounds of ammunition.
But those gun laws that Congress is hashing out right now are for us little people.... Not Jay-Z, Obama, Feinstein, Schumer and the rest.
Wow, dude. As vocal as I have been in the gun control threads lately, I'd have to say that you are about as off-topic as you can get. I didn't read one word about guns from the OP.