WATCH: A$AP Rocky at Oxford

This weekend a portion of A$AP Rocky’s interview with Oxford University last month made its rounds on the internet.

It seems some people took exception with his thoughts on police brutality against minorities:

“Why are we exploiting the beef between the urban community and the police force when 60 people got shot on a Friday and Saturday [on the July holiday weekend in 2014] in Chicago in black-on-black crime? So one cop shoots a black person…that kind of shit is inevitable. Not to glorify it, but that’s nothing new. Let’s talk about the black-on-black crime.”

Syracuse University professor, Dr. Boyce Watkins, called Rocky’s response a “myth to think that one topic nullifies the other.”

“Of course crime in the black community is a concern for all of us, but that doesn’t give police the right to murder unarmed citizens,” Watkins told The Huffington Post. “A better approach to this comment would be for him to focus on the issue at hand, instead of attempting to substitute the first topic for the second one.”

“That’s like hearing from a rape victim and saying, ‘Yea, you might have gotten raped, but you also never pay your speeding tickets,’” he added. “In other words, some are asking innocent black citizens to remain silent about police brutality because there are not-so-innocent black people who engage in violent crime. One has almost nothing to do with the other.”

My two-cents: As much as love me some Flacko, her thoughts were right in line with mine. As my corporate friends would say, “What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?”

Well here’s the interview in it’s entirety.