“I have nothing against transgender people. I simply feel we need to be careful what our children see as ‘sensationalized.’ Children’s brains are a constant development to adulthood [sic]. And they pay attention to everthing whether we accept it our not. I’m a father now so I look at life a lot differently.”
Rapper Waka Flocka Flame ignited controversy last Friday when he went on a radio show and opined that transgender people “are rebuking God.”
The statement emanated during an interview on the New York radio show “The Breakfast Club.” When asked about the popular and controversial Kardashians family, Flame said the following:
“Woman are afraid to be a wife and young males is afraid to be men. It’s like, it’s not cool; they’re not marketing that. They don’t market families and husbands and wives no more. They’re marketing young girls, transgenders, like, they’re marketing evil, man. It’s really evil, dog. Evil is marketed…I am a God fearing man, I ain’t no religious man, I’m just saying, I got nothing against nobody’s preferences, but putting it on TV, that’s crazy man, kids are the only ones watching TV – adults are too busy. You can’t stop your kid from watching certain channels, they’re gonna watch it. I ain’t saying nothing against Bruce Jenner, you follow me? You are who you are when God made you, not who you became after he did. That’s how I just feel. You’re rebuking God, man. God ain’t put them feelings in you; that’s the devil playing tricks on your mind. That’s a test from God. If you can’t outbeat that one task, you believe that, then you’ll believe everything else and you’re going down that way.”
After enduring online backlash the artiste apologized for using the word ‘evil’, but then tweeted, “I have nothing against transgender people. I simply feel we need to be careful what our children see as ‘sensationalized.’ Children’s brains are a constant development to adulthood [sic]. And they pay attention to everthing whether we accept it our not. I’m a father now so I look at life a lot differently.” He then tweeted, “I stand by what I said – I’m not a fan of transgenders marketed like a superhero.”
