By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
Emmett Till’s family is not backing down from the good fight with Lil Wayne, and although the rapper finally addressed them regarding his offensive lyrics in a letter, the family feels what he issued out to the media is not a real apology. As a result of the non apology Lil Wayne has penned, the family of the civil rights icon is now calling for a meeting with Lil Wayne and Pepsi. While it’s unclear if the Till family is still targeting the rapper’s Mountain Dew endorsement, it’s been confirmed that the Rev. Al Sharpton has now gotten involved in the matter. The AP reports:
The family of Emmett Till says a letter from Lil Wayne fell short of an apology for his crude reference to the civil rights martyr, and they want a meeting with the rapper and representatives from PepsiCo to discuss their commercial partnership.
A publicist for the Rev. Al Sharpton says he is attempting to arrange a meeting between the parties to work out differences over Wayne’s vulgar reference to Till in a song lyric. Wayne has a contract to promote PepsiCo product Mountain Dew.
Lil Wayne’s letter, which appears on Young Money Entertainment letterhead and was provided to The Associated Press by the family, offered empathy and outlined corrective measures regarding the offensive lyrics in the song, but stopped short of apologizing.
“I was not impressed,” Airickca Gordon-Taylor, a cousin of Till’s, said of the letter.
The Till family also goes on to tell the AP that they feel Lil Wayne was pressured to make the “apology” out of fear that he would lose his endorsement and that the statement was not an apology but simply an acknowledgement. They now want to have a sit down with Lil Wayne and have dialogue about why his lyrics were hurtful.
Good.
I’m glad they aren’t letting this go. It’s time for these rappers to finally be held accountable by their own people.
I hope they get their meeting. Enough is enough!
I wonder if Pepsi made him issue the statement…hmm…
Al Sharpton tho? Lawd…
Weezy don’t care. He’s too ignorant to care about anyone but himself.
THE TILL FAMILY IS DOING THE MOST RIGHT NOW
F-ck Lil Wayne and his fans. He’s a disgrace to all black people.
Now…if only we fought this hard against the injustices being done to us outside of our own race. We will fight each other until the end but turn a blind eye quick when you have a white politician,actor, singer, news reporter, etc; calling us n%%@$ and treating us beneath them!!! How many big corporations have openly disrespected us as a race and you still use their services or products? Where is the rally, the boycott, the loss of endorsements then…..?
@Anonymous- a hit dog will holla! I didn’t know u knew me, aren’t you anonymous? Have we met before for you to tell me what I keep up with?…If you knew me you would know i don’t listen to rap… so u must be one of those people who get called a female dog in a song and then go pop ur butt to it in the club lol!!!..no rally then! AND MY OPINION stands,…you see rational people can disagree without name calling, now that’s ignorant!! So i repeat…..write it, laminate it, and take a picture of this….Now…if only we fought this hard against the injustices being done to us outside of our own race. We will fight each other until the end but turn a blind eye quick when you have a white politician,actor, singer, news reporter, etc; calling us n%%@$ and treating us beneath them. Just as well as you can list those FEW isolated incidents THAT ONLY GOT UR ATTENTION BECAUSE IT WAS HOT IN THE MEDIA..I can list even more where we were disrespected and there was no repercussion, the President who in his last term.. wont even stand up for you in the face of the world against all the racism going on because he is too scared of what the white man has to say…girl #bye
Oh excuse me..i don’t know many men that read this blog…most don’t keep up with the latest celebrity gossip…(clears throat) 🙂 Does typing IGNORANT in all caps make you feel your point penetrates me any deeper? How cute. So keep being the hot in the media civil rights activist you are and again…girl #bye
You media civil rights activist crack me up!!!! Sorry that the truth hurts, but glad it was valid enough to piss you off. People only get angry at something that touches something in them…things that make you go hummmmm!