Emily Jashinsky
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Cause she's was talking a bit about returning back to her faith and it raises so many different, there are a lot of threads that we can pull on here.
So first of all, we start with the kind of CRT and it wasn't really named.
Nobody was talking about critical race theory and a technical academic sense, but Nicki Minaj speaking from her heart and
very graciously, by the way, I have a couple of other points to get to on that, but speaking from her heart graciously, eloquently, and wearing her heart very clearly on her sleeve with great production value, by the way, from Turning Point USA.
Now, if I had to think about Nicki Minaj speaking at like 2011 CPAC,
It's just, it's different now, right?
Her saying, quote, we are the cool kids hits totally differently when it's coming from a person on the right in 2025, almost 2026, because Donald Trump is now the president.
He has this whole vibe shift post 2024.
So it makes more sense to see something like that.
And it does make it, it does kind of, for me, at least watching that, it, it,
underscores the shift in the culture, and especially for younger people.
But Nicki Minaj had the everyman's reaction to critical race theory in that video.
And let's put up how JD Vance responded.
He said, Nicki Minaj said something at AmFest that was really profound.
I'm paraphrasing, but she said, just because I want little black girls to think they're beautiful doesn't mean I need to put down little girls with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Vance continues, we all got wrapped up over the last few years in the
This was because the people who think they rule the world pit us against one another.
Nicki Minaj rejects that, we all should.
And bundled into that package actually from Vans is this idea that the people
who rule the world were trying to pit us, or they think they rule the world, were trying to pit us against one another, that gets to what Nicki Minaj was saying about being tired of people telling her what to think, saying we are not allowed to think out loud anymore.