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Putin Ally Vadim Shumkov Blames Crisis in Russia on Rise of Black U.S. Music Stars [1]
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Date: 2022-12-02
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A regional governor has been backed by the State Duma after saying the “descendants of African-American slaves” are to blame for the country’s growing crisis.
Vadim Shumkov, governor of the Kurgan region, said Russian society was collapsing, as exemplified by the rising rate of suicide and depression among young people, and it can all be traced back to the popularity of Black American stars in the music industry.
“Many of our children… are already growing up without knowing or remembering their kindred tribe,” he lamented, claiming that they are instead “singing songs written by the descendants of African-American slaves, often playing the ape and imitating the habits and language, brimming with, frankly, second-rate quasi-cultural vulgarity. Clinging to this secondariness, being proud of it. Hence the growth of overt spiritual emptiness, depression, suicides. The lack of meaning in life”
While Shumkov’s remarks were simultaneously mocked and criticized on social media, the Russian State Duma found nothing offensive in his argument.
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