During an interview with the Associated Press, Lil Wayne gave a bit of background into why he doesn't believe injustice towards Black people connotes racism. The New Orleans rapper echoed some of the sentiments he share during a highly scrutinized television appearance on FS1's Undisputed last month, in which he posed that his largely white audience is proof enough that the U.S. has moved beyond racism as a nation. “It’s the world out there. It’s not a certain part or a certain kind or a certain culture or whatever of people, it’s people—those people out there in that crowd,” he said. “I’m blessed to have that opportunity, so with that said I can only be honest with such a thing, I have never witnessed racism.”
Perhaps more profoundly impactful, was an experience Weezy had at 12-years-old, however. That was the age at which he nearly lost his life, after accidentally shooting himself in the chest. Wayne gave detail into the incident, saying that as he lay on the ground bleeding out, he could make out a couple of officers who were blacker than him, stepping over his body in search of drugs and guns. He said if it weren't for a white cop, who tended to him with immediate attention, he would not be alive today. “Yeah, he was a cop, and my life was saved by a white man,” said Wayne. He continued to say that the officer remained by his side at the hospital until he gained reassurance that he would make it.
The AP interview was grounded in the news of the release of Wayne's Rikers Island memoir, "Gone Till November: Journal of Rikers Island." He would serve eight months after he was convicted of a gun charge in 2010. Despite having wrestled with the law and his upbringing in the highly marginalized communities of New Orleans, Wayne hasn't wavered on his position concerning race. Some contend it may have to do with him having acquired wealth at such a young age, and thus, been able to remove from some himself of the stresses of the streets, early. Others only chalk it up to his free and easy spirit.
Source: xxlmag.com