"Build a wall, build a wall --- brick by brick. Obama you're fired"
by digby
Bun B is a Houston-based MC, activist, and Rice University lecturer, who makes up one half of the legendary rap duo U.G.K. that's credited with pioneering the sound of Southern hip hop. He's also VICE's newest political correspondent, covering the garish and unpredictable rockfight that is the 2016 presidential race.
This week, we sent him to join the traveling circus in South Carolina, where Donald Trump is expected to win the Republican primary on Saturday. For a two days, he immersed himself in the state's red-meat brand of conservative politics, talking to the Tea Partiers, Trump supporters, and GOP presidential candidates to find out what's really going on in the lead up to the first Southern primary vote of 2016.
Back in the 40s and 50s when there were jobs it was a beautiful place. Let's get jobs going, it's gonna help your kind of people and my kind of people."
It's an interesting look at the Republican state of mind, particularly those who are excited to vote for Trump. They are very upset about the loss of their way of life. I explored that issue in this piece for Salon a while back: The America they want to "take back" doesn't exist anymore.
