{"id":19676,"date":"2014-11-13T23:17:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T05:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=19676"},"modified":"2014-11-13T23:17:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T05:17:59","slug":"nicki-minaj-tweets-shes-very-sorry-for-nazi-esque-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/nicki-minaj-tweets-shes-very-sorry-for-nazi-esque-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj tweets she&#8217;s &#8216;very sorry&#8217; for Nazi-esque video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">NEW YORK (JTA) &#8212; Rapper and songwriter Nicki Minaj apologized on Twitter for a new music video that contains Nazi imagery.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t come up w\/the concept, but I&#8217;m very sorry &amp; take full responsibility if it has offended anyone, Minaj tweeted Tuesday to her 18.3 million followers. &#8220;I&#8217;d never condone Nazism in my art.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">In the video for &#8220;Only,&#8221; which has received 2 million views on YouTube, a Minaj animation marches through scores of soldiers and large red banners with an insignia said to resemble a swastika. It sparked outrage upon its release last week.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">The Anti-Defamation League, which wrote in a news release Monday that it was &#8220;deeply disturbed&#8221; by the video, said it accepted Minaj&#8217;s apology.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">&#8220;We are pleased that Nicki Minaj has taken full responsibility for the video and recognized that it was indeed offensive,\u201d said Abraham Foxman, the ADL&#8217;s national director, in a statement issued Tuesday. \u201cHer clear renunciation of Nazism is an important step.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">In the earlier release, the ADL said the video &#8220;evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture\u2019s exploitation of Nazi symbolism.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Nicki%20Minaj%20tweets%20she%27s%20%27very%20sorry%27%20for%20Nazi-esque%20video\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3432,8790,8795,8788,6336,2898],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19677,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19676\/revisions\/19677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}