Lupe Fiasco pens open letter on white supremacy

Lupe Fiasco is pushing back against the idea of white supremacy.

The rapper (33) took to Instagram to post a lengthy and emotional open letter about race, addressed to the "White Supremacy," in what appears to be a response to Charleston shooting suspect Dylan Roof's alleged manifesto.

"There is also nothing about you psychologically, philosophically, cognitively, academically, socially, architecturally, culturally or even financially that signifies a higher position above any other group," he wrote in the first of three posts. "And to be diplomatic, there is nothing about you that denotes innate inferiority as well. So what you really are is something in the middle. You are regular. White Regularity is congruent to all other forms of regularity i.e. Black, Brown, Etc etc."

Fiasco also talked about the overall "regularness" of different racial groups, and noted that great contributions to the world -- like those of Apple, for instance -- were collaborative efforts between people of different races. He called the notion of of white supremacy a ruse that certain white people use to achieve success by convincing other people that it is real:

"And if you wanted to get really ironic and meta about it, White Supremacy has to validate it's own identity based solely on its relationship to other races. I mean now that's what I would call joined at the hip. Without us there is no white supremacy because there would be nothing to be supreme over! That sounds so stupid but sometimes the truth is stupid. Stupid like a fox. And no not stupid like a Fox News I mean the real fox."

Fiasco is not the first celebrity to open up in light of the Charleston shootings. Jon Stewart spent and episode of his show last week on the tragedy, refraining from telling his usual jokes.

You can read Fiasco's full letter in the Instagram captions below.