Consider Felonious Munk's urban rapper’s version of Rick Santelli’s famous February 2009 rant that started the Tea Party. The theme is essentially the same, although Munk and Santelli come from entirely different directions. Santelli ranted from the point of view of industrial leaders worried that the government was going to spend America into bankruptcy. Munk rants from the point of view of a black man disappointed in the lack of leadership shown by the first black president, who is spending America into bankruptcy. Santelli and Munk both conclude that Barack Obama is a lousy president who had led our national to the brink of catastrophe — this says quite a lot.
Monk said of his rant against Obama. “You got to keep in mind, it puts me in a unique position as a black guy who has questioned Obama.”
For the most part, the reaction to those words from the black community “hasn’t been that bad.” But there are detractors who don’t like him speaking out against a black president. Munk had a message for them:
“It’s disingenuous to complain about a black man saying something about Obama, when, during President Bush’s reign if you spoke out against the government at that time it was kind of this, ‘oh, you‘re not patriotic’ thing. And black people thought that was ridiculous. Well, if that was ridiculous then, it‘s just as ridiculous for you to say that I can’t speak out against Obama.”
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