The video above is that of Common performing at Michelle Obama’s Evening Of Poetry at the Wite House.
A celebration of poetry was held on Wednesday (May 11) at the White House and it featured great poets and musicians like Steve Martin. One of the members in
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vited was Hip-Hop artist Common. This invite has caused quite a stir in politics and has left many people upset.
Common appeared last night at the Evening Of Poetry event as a part of Michelle Obama’s White House Music Series.
The invite caused a huge headache for the first family. Politicians went on the offensive and started to attack Common for his political views and a few of his suggestive lyrics.
Karl Rove, the former deputy chief of staff to George W. Bush, responded to the controversy by saying: “Yes, let’s invite a misogynist to the White House, a guy who’s called for violence against police officers, and called for killing the former President of the United States George W. Bush… This guy is a thug.”
Sarah Palin also had this to say about the Presidents choice: “The judgment is just so lacking of class and decency and all that’s good about America with an invite like this,” Palin said. “They’re just inviting someone like me or someone else to ask, ‘C’mon Barack Obama who are you palling around with now’?”
In a press conference, Press Secretary Jay Carney had this to say about the Presidents decision: “While the President doesn’t support the kind of lyrics that have been raised here … we do think that some of these reports distort what Mr. Lynn [Common] stands for, more broadly, in order to stoke a controversy,” Carney said. “Within the genre of hip-hop and rap, [Common] is what’s known as a conscience rapper.”
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