Burna Boy References Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan After Making Controversial Statements About Black Americans Not Knowing Their Roots
Burna Boy is on a roll, ruffling feathers all over the internet. He caught a lot of heat for his controversial stance regarding the disconnect between African Americans and their roots. He’s now using Malcolm X and Minister Louis Farrakhan to make his point.
The 32-year-old artist is actively promoting his upcoming album, I Told Them and appeared on Complex’s 360 With Speedy. Host Speedy Morman brought up his recent rant and Burna dismissed the negative rebuttals.
“My mission is to bring us together,” he said. “My mission is to build a bridge that can’t be broken, a bridge that should’ve always been there. So for me, that’s not really relevant. I don’t really look at none of that because I feel like when people say that, they have their own agendas.”
The Nigerian artist then mentioned the two activists to clarify this statement.
“There’s nothing I said that Malcolm X didn’t say,” he said. “There’s nothing I said that The Honorable Louis Farrakhan didn’t say. But, obviously, it’s Burna Boy saying it and he’s from Africa. All that’s beneath me. My mission and my movements [are] too divine for stupid sh*t like that.”
The comment that had fans riled up was Burna’s response to a question activist Chaka Bars asked him in March. Chaka asked, “Why it is important for the African diaspora to come home.”
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