Some members of the hip hop community are joining forces today to try and raise awareness about Donald Trump’s lies. The hashtag #45Lies is trending as artists lend their voices to what’s described as a “rapid response movement.” The group claims:
45 lies SO incessantly that we’ve become desensitized to his falsehoods which inordinately impact the Black community. Hip Hop culture contains the talent, the reach, and the credibility to “battle” these lies, especially in time to encourage action and dynamic response during election season. #45Lies is an organized and viral campaign to hone and unleash our potential when democracy is literally on the line.
Actor Daveed Diggs, best known for his role in Hamilton, took part in the challenge saying his video was in “response to this SPECIFIC lie:”
On June 20th 2020, Trump said “I worked closely with a great senator … Sen. Tim Scott, South Carolina, to create opportunity zones, which are doing incredibly. And since then countless jobs and $100 billion of new investment, not government investment, have poured into 9,000 of our most distressed neighborhoods anywhere in the country.”
We know better, so we SAY as such in defense of an honest public record.
The first video in the campaign came from Marc Bamuthi Joseph, a self-described arts activist, and a spoken word artist. He took on a lie he said Trump told within an hour of taking office. The statement, “I looked out, the field was, it looked like a MILLION, million and a half people…”
Take a look at Joseph’s response above and click here to see more videos from the group.
