Remember when Diddy bought his son Justin a Maybach for his 16th birthday? Well last month Diddy did an interview with Martin Bashir for ABC Nightline, and a question came up about the $400,000 purchase. Here’s what Diddy said in his defense.
“I think it’s appropriate to give my kids whatever I want to give my kids,” he said. “I feel the way I raise my children, I don’t have to explain to you or anyone else, ’cause nobody knows the way I raise my children. So nobody knows the lessons that I’ve taught my children to understand, if they are mentally ready for that.”
A month later, Diddy says he regrets even participating in the interview with Martin Bashir, and that Bashir’s question about his son’s gift was a racist question!
In the August/September issue of Vibe magazine Diddy says,
“There were times in the interview when I had to give him an ultimatum. The questions weren’t being handled the right way. In hindsight, when I saw him I shouldn’t had done the interview because I know the style of interview that he does . . . The whole thing about giving a Maybach to my son, that’s really like a racist question. You don’t ask White people what they buy their kids. And they buy ‘em Porsches and convertible Bentleys and it ain’t no question. It’s really a racist question and put things back in perspective with money and the way that people still look at you. And I’m not saying that consciously he’s a racist. But he probably don’t even realize that he would not ask Steve Jobs that. He would be like Steve Jobs has that money and that’s the gift his kid is supposed to get.”
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