Hip Hop Icon, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D Calls Arizona Immigration Law Racist

Public Enemy front-man Chuck D expresses his opinion on Arizona’s new immigration law calling it racist.

A new immigration law that Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into legislation last week has some people outraged especially Public Enemy’s Chuck D and wife Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson.

Chuck D addresses the controversial law by viewing it as “the growing tangible and intangible wall existing between the black and brown people in North America.”

Under the new law, Arizona police are required to question people if they have reason to suspect they may be in the United States illegally.

Chuck D and his wife, Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson, released a statement regarding the new law.

Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson stated in her statement that Jan Brewer’s decision to sign the Arizona immigration bill into law is racist, deceitful, and reflects some of the most mean-spirited politics against immigrants that the country has ever seen. She goes on to state that the law gives police the power to detain people they suspect to be undocumented and is presenting a racial profiling as a new low.

“Brewer’s actions and those of [Maricopa County, AZ sheriff] Joe Arpaio, [Senator] Russell Pearce, the Arizona State Senate are despicable, inexcusable, and endorse the all-out hate campaign that Joe Arpaio, Russell Pearce, and others have perpetrated upon immigrants for years,” Chuck D and Johnson added.

The husband and wife say that the people who voted for the bill and even those who crafted it are demonstrating no regard for the humanity or contributions of Latino people and say shame on the people who are silently endorsing the legislated hate for not speaking up.

Chuck D doesn’t mind being Public Enemy number 1, does he?

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