{"id":8956,"date":"2026-10-22T15:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/10\/22\/vic-mensa-calls-out-anti-black-racism-without-backing-away-from-palestine\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:20:03","slug":"vic-mensa-calls-out-anti-black-racism-without-backing-away-from-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/10\/22\/vic-mensa-calls-out-anti-black-racism-without-backing-away-from-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Vic Mensa Calls Out Anti-Black Racism Without Backing Away From Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vic-Mensa-1200x675.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vic Mensa challenged anti-Black racism in a new interview with Abdul El-Sayed while reaffirming his support for Palestine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/vic-mensa\/\">Vic Mensa<\/a> questioned why solidarity should require silence about anti-Black racism during his conversation with Abdul El-Sayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rapper recalled children using a racial slur toward him in Palestine while reaffirming his support for Palestinian liberation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El-Sayed, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, agreed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-white-color has-body-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-3 has-dark-background has-xxl-margin-top has-xxl-margin-bottom\" data-content-name=\"middle-content-engagement-single\" data-track-content=\"\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-black-background-color has-background has-dark-background has-sm-padding-top has-sm-padding-bottom has-sm-padding-left has-sm-padding-right has--lg-margin-top has--lg-margin-bottom\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-altfont wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-join-us\">Join Us <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-allhiphop-s-daily-news-service\">AllHipHop\u2019s Daily News Service<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-sm-max-width wp-block-paragraph\">Delivering news to inboxes since 1999. We break it. They take it. Get it first, straight from AllHipHop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to address the elephant in the room,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Abdul El-Sayed: When Money Talks, The People Pay | The Vic Mensa Show Episode 9\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Qpq-XQpk1Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vic Mensa\u2019s connection to the issue goes back years. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5095435\/vic-mensa-palestine-israel-jerusalem\/\">January 2018 essay<\/a>, he described traveling to Palestine the previous summer with Black artists, scholars and activists through Dream Defenders. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He drew parallels between the treatment he witnessed there and racial profiling in America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mensa made clear that his essay was not an attack on Jewish people. He framed it as criticism of the Israeli state\u2019s treatment of Palestinian civilians, drawing on what he said he had witnessed rather than claiming to explain every part of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mensa discussed that same trip in a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingispolitical.com\/readings\/vic-mensa\">Everything Is Political interview<\/a>, telling Celine Semaan that being in Palestine had shaped his perspective. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said he drew on lived experience as well as reading, then used raps and essays to express his thoughts and observations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He viewed Hip-Hop as a way to teach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked specifically about the 2017 trip, he recalled watching a young Palestinian\u2019s encounter with Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem while he was with Marc Lamont Hill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The young man\u2019s body language reminded him of Black youths dealing with police on Chicago\u2019s South Side, Mensa said. In Hebron, he also recounted an encounter in which his American citizenship gave him freedom of movement that Palestinian companions did not have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mensa said an older man in a Bedouin camp had asked the visiting group to tell the outside world about what they had seen. He said he promised to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that interview, Mensa also called anti-Blackness a global problem, even as he credited his own religious practice with helping him treat people better. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said his imam taught him not to judge others as though he were God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El-Sayed recalled a Black teacher introducing him to civil-rights history after the September 11 attacks and argued against seeking acceptance at Black Americans\u2019 expense.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/news\/vic-mensa-calls-out-anti-black-racism-without-backing-away-from-palestine\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vic Mensa challenged anti-Black racism in a new interview with Abdul El-Sayed while reaffirming his support for Palestine. Vic Mensa questioned why solidarity should require silence about anti-Black racism during his conversation with Abdul El-Sayed. The rapper recalled children using a racial slur toward him in Palestine while reaffirming his support for Palestinian liberation. El-Sayed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}