Women's Group Rejects Rick Ross' Rape Lyric Apology: "He Doesn't Get the Problem"

FUSE TV - Women's Group Rejects Rick Ross' Rape Lyric Apology: "He Doesn't Get the Problem"

The furor over Rick Ross' rape lyric in "U.O.E.N.O." has gone from the Internet to the streets. 

Women's rights group UltraViolet staged a protest today outside Reebok's flagship store in New York, demanding the corporate giant rescind their endorsement deal with the Maybach Music boss.

Amid chants of "Reebok drop Rick Ross!" and "Rape is not a joke / Give women hope," a group of approximately 50 protesters dropped off a petition signed by 72,000 people demanding Reebok stop "rewarding a man who brags about raping women."

Shortly before the protest, Ross tweeted an apology stating, "I don't condone rape, apologies for the lyric interpreted as rape." 

Fuse asked UltraViolet's co-founder and executive director Shaunna Thomas if Ross' latest apology was acceptable. "No, of course not. That apology exposes one of two things," Thomas tells Fuse. "One: He's feeling a lot of pressure, which is great. And that means people need to keep putting pressure on him to make him understand what the problem is. And the second thing is that he doesn't really get the problem. He did rap about rape. It's not an interpretation. He needs to get to a place where he understands that."

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