Killer Mike’s Influence and Politics

You can learn a lot about the how Killer Mike is an influencer in the black community hailing from Atlanta, Georgia where he has ingratiated himself into the community there. As a member of Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’s transition team “they’ll be working with educators, CEOs, and influencers to identify key issues in the city” according to Fox 5 Atlanta. The creator of “Trigger Warning”, available on Netflix, has gone above and beyond to make his voice heard in the world. He has thrown his support behind the Bernie Sanders again this cycle, like he did in the 2016 cycle. He was responsible for millions of dollars being moved from white banks to black owned banks…. (We’ll ignore the reality of the role of the federal reserve and the banking cartel that is our central banking system). He has had businesses in his community shut down for racism and disrespect by voicing his dismay with the business and requesting that residents quit patroning the business. These are just a few examples of the power that this one man wields. He is educated, intelligent, and pro black.

Financial Investment in Black Communities

Freedom Dividend — One of the biggest issues Mike has with the black community is their failure to invest back into themselves and their communities. He speaks about the growing inequality and the reality that the black community only keep money in the community for an hour before it is sent into the other communities where they use it to build wealth. The Freedom Dividend is the most direct investment that the government can make into the black community. This single policy would change the entirety of the working class of black America. This alone could keep thousands of people from selling drugs and committing petty crimes that destroys the family unit in our communities. This isn’t even taking into account that Andrew Yang has mentioned that getting the Freedom Dividend passed is a segway and foundation for which reparations could be built on. With the Freedom Dividend, one of Andrew Yang’s biggest arguments for it is the flourishing and investment into small businesses within a local community. As a former small business owner myself, I can attest to the fact that a simple $1,000 a month would have altered my business 10 fold. This is what Mike has been advocating for years. With around half a million people in Atlanta, you would think a person as influential and caring about community as Killer Mike he would want the $500,000,000 injected into the community every month …But there is something that is more important that to the man known as Killer Mike.

Medicare for All

This is Bernie’s bread and butter, there is absolutely zero room for misinformation when it comes to his plan for our healthcare system. Mike doesn’t seem necessarily on board with removing people choices because choices means freedom and he often is seen saying that “black people have been free for over 50 years, now act like it”. Yang on the other hand wants to do the same thing but leave the choice up to the people. His plan essentially is to Amazon-out the health insurance industry. The government isn’t in the market to make money the way the insurance companies are, in the same way that Amazon can compete for a long period of time at a loss in order to kill competitors.

Charter Schools

Bernie Sanders is against charter schools. Yang is pro good school. Killer Mike is also pro good school. Mike advocates for people and communities to invest in and start their own schools. Yang wants to use government financial assistance to aid communities in providing better quality education regardless of whether they are public, private, or charter schools. In this clip you can see Mike and DJ Envy of the Breakfast Club go back and forth on schools. Sanders wants to eliminate charter schools and in this area wants to stand in the way of what Mike advocates at every turn. While it can be understood that a single issue wouldn’t waiver support for a candidate like Bernie Sanders, but when you look into the reality that how we choose to raise and train our children, you are looking at the root cause of how our future turns out.

Poor People’s Campaign

It wasn’t King’s push for civil rights that got him killed, it was his push to bring people of all races and backgrounds together to demand a better life for all Americans. King did not demonize the rich but only wanted better for the rest of us. In an interview with Bernie Sanders, Killer Mike mentioned how there were no other candidates that truly embodied the spirit of the Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign. This is a pretty presumptive statement considering Mike never sat down with the only candidate that has brought King’s vision of a “guaranteed minimum income” into the mainstream conversation effectively moving the Overton window. Sanders has expressed the reality that the day will come that a Universal Basic Income will be needed, Andrew Yang says that time is now. Killer Mike has not spoken about it, but he will be faced with one of the biggest advocates of UBI sometime in November according to this tweet by Killer Mike.

Loyalty

So with all these core beliefs and many more being in line with Andrew Yang, why won’t Killer Mike alter his support away from Bernie Sanders? It’s very simple actually, loyalty. Killer Mike exemplifies and personifies the black culture in America. It doesn’t matter what Bernie Sanders does, says, or feels… Killer Mike wants to change the system and knows that Bernie Sanders wants to change the system in seriously fundamental ways. For Bernie Sanders has fought for decades for the same things and has shown a consistency unmatched in congress, save for a few outliers like Ron Paul and his accurate understanding of the root cause of monetary policy issues with the existence of the Federal Reserve. Bernie Sanders is a safe bet. Andrew Yang is new to the world of politics and Killer Mike hasn’t been given enough time or information to make an appropriate or fair assessment of the new kid on the block, and it is simply through loyalty at this point that Killer Mike will now and forever more support Bernie Sanders.