Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesBad Wolves frontman Tommy Vext feels that the video he posted earlier this week outlining a conspiracy surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement has “been widely misunderstood as my beliefs and opinion.”
In the video, Vext laid out a theory on how individuals such as Hillary Clinton and billionaire investor George Soros, both of whom are subject to a number of right-wing conspiracy theories, are allegedly paying the anti-fascist Antifa movement to instigate violence within Black Lives Matter in an attempt to distract the media from their own alleged wrongdoings.
Vext also said that he felt the United States does not “have a problem with race,” and that the assertion that it does is “all manufactured.”
“I’m African-American, I’m 38 years old, I’ve grown up in this country and I have not experienced actual racism,” he said.
Now, in a follow-up post, Vext says that he was merely explaining a “theoretical scenario” that doesn’t necessarily reflect what he actually believes.
“Predictably certain media outlets misquoted and misrepresented my inquiries as opinions and lambasted me to serve their own purposes making the video go viral,” Vext writes.
“As I DID STATE in the video systemic racism IS indeed a very real pandemic that effects the judicial, economic, healthcare, housing & education systems in underserved black communities,” he continues. “However my personal experience of White Americans and ‘white culture’ over the past 20 years has not been one of hateful bigotry but unilateral acceptance.”
Vext adds that he did realize the “insensitive timing” of the video following “several conversations with fellow artist[s] [and] thought leaders in the African American community.”
By Josh Johnson
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