Rapper Cardi B reiterated her criticisms of Joe Biden, joining the wave of celebrities of color distancing themselves from the Democratic candidate for president this November.
Cardi B, whose legal name is Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar, continued to commit that she will not be voting in the 2024 elections in an interview with the Rolling Stone. Her switch from once endorsing Biden ahead of the 2020 election to now not voting for either candidate this year, comes from “layers and layers of disappointment” in the current president.
“I feel like people got betrayed,” Cardi B said. “It’s just like, d***, y’all not caring about nobody.”
Meanwhile, under Biden’s direction, Congress allotted another $26.38 billion to Israel amid its fight in Gaza against Hamas. Cardi B implied that artists of color, in particular, can be “blackballed” for expressing their disapproval of the war.
“[The U.S.] don’t pay for endless wars for countries that have been going through s*** for a very long time,” Cardi B said. “There’s countries [where] kids are getting killed every single day, but because the [U.S.] won’t …