Yep . Russell Simmons, founder of hip hop record label, Def Jam, has endorsed Hillary Clinton. You'd think he'll be great at persuading young African Americans. But wait. There's more.
He is a business tycoon, estimated by Wikipedia to be worth $340 million and to top it off, he's a banker, touting his Rushcard business even as he was endorsing Hillary. It ends up that Rushcard is being sued AND investigated because it left thousands of mostly poor people unable to access the funds they'd put on their cards.
NPR reported,
"Many of RushCard's customers are what the finance industry calls "underbanked" or "unbanked," meaning they do not have enough money to sustain a checking account, as The Atlantic's Gillian White explained on All Things Considered:
"They don't have the necessary credit to keep up a credit line," White told NPR's Audie Cornish. "Prepaid cards kind of fill that role where you can have money direct deposited onto it. You can load money yourself, and then you can use it in places where a debit card -- in this case, a Visa card -- would be accepted."
To be fair, Russell Simmons isn't a totally evil guy. He was supportive of Occupy Wall Street and, as a vegan, has strong opinions about the role of meat in global warming. He said today something along the lines that he's not satisfied with Bernie Sander's responses when it came to his concerns about farming. It is profoundly hard for me to imagine that Hillary will be better on the environment than Bernie Sanders. But she might be better at cutting his RushCard company slack on the investigation it is being subject to if she is elected.
A banker is a banker is a banker. Hillary is at least consistent.
This will absolutely mar Russell Simmons brand and image as a progressive. Simply calling Hillary a progressive is a sign that he's full of it.
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