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| | Minaj responded by retweeting a message that Reid sent in 2020 saying: “I mean, will anyone...anyone at all...ever fully trust the @CDC again?...And who on God's earth would trust a vaccine approved by the @US FDA???...How do we get a vaccine distributed after this broken, Trumpist nonsense has infected everything?...Even if Biden wins?” Minaj continued, | | Minaj responded by retweeting a message that Reid sent in 2020 saying: “I mean, will anyone...anyone at all...ever fully trust the @CDC again?...And who on God's earth would trust a vaccine approved by the @US FDA???...How do we get a vaccine distributed after this broken, Trumpist nonsense has infected everything?...Even if Biden wins?” Minaj continued, |
| | {{quotebox-float|"This is what happens when you’re so thirsty to down another black woman (by the request of the white man), that you didn’t bother to read all my tweets. ‘My God SISTER do better’ imagine getting ur dumb a– on tv a min after a tweet to spread a false narrative about a black woman" adding "Two white men sittin there nodding their heads cuz this uncle tomiana doing the work chile. How sad." And, "Right…I can’t speak to, agree with, even look at someone from a particular political party…Ppl aren’t human any more…If you’re black & a Democrat tells u to shove marbles up ur a**, you simply have to…If another party tells u to look out for that bus, stand there & get hit”<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/09/14/nicki-minaj-and-msnbcs-joy-reid-feud-over-covid-19-vaccine/</ref>}} | | {{quotebox-float|"This is what happens when you’re so thirsty to down another black woman (by the request of the white man), that you didn’t bother to read all my tweets. ‘My God SISTER do better’ imagine getting ur dumb a– on tv a min after a tweet to spread a false narrative about a black woman" adding "Two white men sittin there nodding their heads cuz this uncle tomiana doing the work chile. How sad." And, "Right…I can’t speak to, agree with, even look at someone from a particular political party…Ppl aren’t human any more…If you’re black & a Democrat tells u to shove marbles up ur a**, you simply have to…If another party tells u to look out for that bus, stand there & get hit”<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/09/14/nicki-minaj-and-msnbcs-joy-reid-feud-over-covid-19-vaccine/</ref>}} |
| − | In a lengthy [[Instagram]] video Minaj hit back at the [[mainstream media]] for attacking her about her stance on the coronavirus vaccine and defended herself from accusations of lying after she said the [[White House]] invited her to a discussion about the [[vaccine]]. Minaj said, “Don’t tell me I can’t agree with a Republican.” In another video, Minaj said “We’re no longer even allowed to voice our opinions or ask questions?!” she said. “So many of your favorite artists feel this way but they’re afraid to speak up!”<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/17/rap-star-nicki-minaj-rebels-against-democrat-party-control-of-black-people-dont-tell-me-i-cant-agree-with-a-republican/</ref> Rapper Busta Rhymes and R&B singers Tank and Summer Walker have also expressed vaccine skepticism. | + | In a lengthy [[Instagram]] video Minaj hit back at the [[mainstream media]] for attacking her about her stance on the coronavirus vaccine and defended herself from accusations of lying after she said the [[White House]] invited her to a discussion about the [[vaccine]]. Minaj said, “Don’t tell me I can’t agree with a Republican.” In another video, Minaj said “We’re no longer even allowed to voice our opinions or ask questions?!” she said. “So many of your favorite artists feel this way but they’re afraid to speak up!”<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/17/rap-star-nicki-minaj-rebels-against-democrat-party-control-of-black-people-dont-tell-me-i-cant-agree-with-a-republican/</ref> Rappers Busta Rhymes, Bia, and R&B singers Tank and Summer Walker have also expressed vaccine skepticism. |
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| | Minaj blasted [[cancel culture]], comparing it to the suppression of [[free speech]] in [[Communist China]]. “You should be able to ask questions about anything you’re putting inside your body,” she said, noting that women often interrogate much more innocuous things, like wig glue. “But you can’t innocently ask question about something going in your body?” she continued. “I remember going to [[China]] and they were telling us you cannot speak out against the people in power there, et cetera, and I remember all of us thinking, oh, ok, we understand and we respect the laws here and that it’s so different from where we live.”<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/16/rap-star-nicki-minaj-compares-cancel-culture-in-u-s-to-communist-china-dont-yall-see-whats-fking-happening/</ref> | | Minaj blasted [[cancel culture]], comparing it to the suppression of [[free speech]] in [[Communist China]]. “You should be able to ask questions about anything you’re putting inside your body,” she said, noting that women often interrogate much more innocuous things, like wig glue. “But you can’t innocently ask question about something going in your body?” she continued. “I remember going to [[China]] and they were telling us you cannot speak out against the people in power there, et cetera, and I remember all of us thinking, oh, ok, we understand and we respect the laws here and that it’s so different from where we live.”<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/16/rap-star-nicki-minaj-compares-cancel-culture-in-u-s-to-communist-china-dont-yall-see-whats-fking-happening/</ref> |