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Lupe Fiasco Delves Deep Into Race Issues In 'Dear White Supremacy' Open Letter

Lupe addressed the Charleston shooting in his own way.

The racially motivated shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina church that claimed nine lives last week has made it abundantly clear that the United States is still dealing with deep-seated issues of racism. And in a lengthy, three-part Instagram post over the weekend, which he called "Dear White Supremacy," Lupe Fiasco addressed this.

Lupe's letter wasn't easy to digest, but below you can read some of the excerpts.

He pointed out that no one race is actually superior to the other.

"While throughout history White Supremacy it must be admitted you have achieved some very dominant positions. These positions have been gained mostly through force or some biological agent such as disease that did a lot of the dirty work for you in advance. I mean anybody can use force on an unarmed populous and anybody can have smallpox. Not judging, just wanted to point out that having a disease that native folks aren't immune to because they've never seen it doesn't make you strategically smart or tactically superior, just kind of sick.

For that matter there is also nothing about you psychologically, philosophically, cognitively, academically, socially, architecturally, culturally or even financially that signifies a higher position above any other group. And to be diplomatic there is nothing about you that denotes innate inferiority as well. So what you really are is something in the middle."

He pointed out that collaboration between races and cultures has helped us all to progress.

"Things are created in collaboration and in tandem with other cultures, knowledge structures and movements and more important, People. I mean if those Muslims didn't catalog all that Greek philosophy for research we might not even know who Plato was. Now whether this collaboration is forced, which is seen so much but not exclusively throughout human history, does not take away the fact that it is done with the help of somebody else. We are supreme as a spectrum of colors in collaboration. One color does not dominate the other nor can it.

He used Steve Jobs as an example.

"Sure Steve Jobs was white. But the guy who built the computer was probably Chinese. And the girl who wrote the programs for the computer is probably from Mumbai. And the raw materials that were used to make it where probably first pulled out of the ground by somebody in South Africa. And if you take this highly collaborated upon piece of high technology to an indigenous tribe in the jungles of Brazil they'd probably use it as a boat paddle."

He pointed out hatred between races don't stop us from borrowing from each other.

"Is your swastika flag printed in Mexico? Did you know the swastika is originally from Asia and the subcontinent? Did you know black people had slaves in Africa too? Did you know in the world your considered a minority too? I mean you call us n-----s and beaners but you gotta ship all your formerly Native American land, backwood sourced ginseng to China to get money to support your meth habit. Meth that's made with chemicals produced in India. I mean Hitler hated everything about the Jews expect every possession they had. It's funny how the things you hate so much you have to rely on the most for your survival."

He pointed out that "white supremacy" couldn't exist without other races.

"And if you wanted to get really ironic and meta about it, White Supremacy has to validate it's own identity based solely on its relationship to other races! I mean now that's what I would call joined at the hip. Without us there is no white supremacy because there would be nothing to be supreme over! That sounds so stupid but sometimes the truth is stupid. Stupid like a fox. And no not stupid like a Fox News I mean the real fox. The animal."

Next month, MTV will debut the documentary “White People,” which aims to answer the question, “What does it mean to be white?” It will be presented from the P.O.V. of young white people living in America. “White People” premieres on MTV on July 22nd at 8/7c.

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