Just For Laughs, Politics - Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:01 - 9 Comments

Colin Powell Does Hip-Hop

This week former secretary of state Colin Powell, hopped on stage with Nigerian rapper Olu Maintain at the Africa Rising Festival in London.

Once on stage, the typically reserved Powell danced and even rapped. But it wasn’t all fun and games. Colin also spoke on the importance of acknowledging his heritage.

Colin told the crowd, “I stand before you tonight as an African-American. Many people have said to me you became secretary of state of the USA, is it still necessary to say that you are an African-American or that you are Black, and I say, yes, so that we can remind our children. It took a lot of people struggling to bring me to this point in history. I didn’t just drop out of the sky, people came from my continent in chains.”