It will come as a shock to exactly no-one to learn that, once again, a pundit for FOX News has expressed an opinion that demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of race relations in America. This time, it concerns Kendrick Lamar's recent appearance at the BET Awards.
The rapper performed 'Alright' at the Black Entertainment Television Awards - and his performance featured him standing on a police car rapping the line, "We hate the po-po, wanna kill us dead in the street for sure."
Kicking off the view of the FOX News show The Five, one pundit said, "I don't like it. You know I don't like it. I get it, that's his right to express himself, let the free market decide. Personally it doesn't excite me, doesn't turn me on, doesn't interest me. I'm not feeling it."
Geraldo Rivera, however, took things further, saying, "This is why I say that hip hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years." Yes, you read that correctly.
Watch Kendrick Lamar perform 'Alright' at the BET Awards below
He continued, "This is exactly the wrong message. And then to conflate what happened in the church in South Carolina with these tragic incidents involving excessive use of force by cops, is to equate that racist killer with these cops.
"It is so wrong, it is so counter-productive, it gives exactly the wrong message, it doesn't recognise that a city like Baltimore - remember Freddie Gray - they've had a homicide a day since Freddie Gray, no-one's protesting that. Baltimore, a tiny city 7% the size of New York has just as many murders as New York. We've got to wake up at a certain point."
Kendrick Lamar's third album, To Pimp A Butterfly, was released earlier this year to critical acclaim.
