RZA Says It’s Time For a Female President

We're less than a year away from the 2016 election, and the Republicans are locked in a dog fight: the eccentric real estate mogul Donald Trump leads the pack with 28%, followed by the neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 19%, Florida Senator Marco Rubio at 12.5%, Texas Senator Ted Cruz just behind him at 11% and the one-time frontrunner, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush at 5.5%. The Democrats, on the other hand, have a more focused fight for delegates. And while the long-time Independent Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, is making a strong push, former Secretary of State, New York Senator and First Lady Hillary Clinton remains the presumptive nominee. And if you ask the RZA, it's about time.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, the Wu-Tang mastermind says that he thinks it's time a woman takes the country's reigns. "I would be onboard" with a female President, he says, "because I understand that the world has yin and yang, and that would be very interesting for our country in the sense of its history." RZA goes on to compare women's fight for equality with that of Black Americans: "Seeing Barack Obama become president echoes the struggle for blacks to get out of slavery and then to see that somebody, 100-plus years later, can grow to be in that position. But even after slavery was abolished, women's rights were still not and they still had to fight for the right to vote. Why not take it another step further and give a female a chance?"

It would seem as if RZA's outlook stems from an unusually sunny reading of the founding fathers' writings, however.  "When it says 'All men are created equal,' look at what that means," he reminds the interviewer. "That means Black men, brown men, red men, yellow men, white men, wo-men. She's a form of a man as well." The producer did not explicitly endorse Hillary Clinton or Carly Fiorina, the two women seeking nominations from the major parties.