Rapper Akwasi is considering reporting a crime after receiving threats on social media. The threats that come in after Akwasi“Speech at the Black Lives Matter protest in Amsterdam will be” taken seriously, “according to the artist’s management.
“If the words used give cause to do so,” a declaration will be made, says management. The rapper decided to share a number of threats on social media because he did not think this was the case.
Against Zwarte Piet
Akwasi“Speech on Dam Square caused a commotion. Especially the passage in which the rapper spoke out against Zwarte Piet was frequently shared on social media. “The moment I see a Zwarte Piet, I personally kick him on the face,” said the rapper. PVV leader Geert Wilders, among others, was excited about those words. According to the rapper’s management, those statements “should be seen as a call to resistance, not violence.”
Zwarte Piet is a fictional person, someone who does not exist and after Akwasi“S and many people in the Netherlands, opinion should not exist,” said management. “As long as there are Dutch people who paint in Blackface around a children’s party, it feels like a slap in the face for many Dutch people. That emotion has Akwasi want to give words in his speech. “
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