Valerie Jarrett Lectured By Bill O’Reilly: ‘Gangsta Rappers’ Should ‘Knock It Off’

Valerie Jarrett, the senior adviser to President Barack Obama, went on Fox News Thursday only to receive a lecture from Bill O’Reilly about how young African American boys need role models other than “gangsta rappers” such as Jay-Z and Kanye West.

O’Reilly and Jarrett were attempting to discuss the president’s new “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, announced Thursday by Obama who said, “By almost every measure, the group that is facing some of the most severe challenges in the 21st century, in this country, are boys and young men of color.”

Obama called the plight of African-American and other minority youth an “outrage,” but that, sadly, “we just assume this is an inevitable part of American life.”

But O’Reilly told Valerie Jarrett that the problem is really quite simple. African-American boys need to stop listening to “gangsta rap.”

“You have to attack the fundamental disease if you want to cure it,” the 64-yer-old pundit told Jarrett. “Now I submit to you that you’re gonna have to get people like Jay-Z, Kanye West, all these gangsta rappers to knock it off.”

“They need positive role models, as you said…” said Valerie Jarrett, who is herself African-American. But O’Reilly cut her off.

“Listen to me! Listen to me!” he said. “You gotta get were they live.”

The problem as O’Reilly, who was raised in Levittown, Long Island, New York, sees it, is that that as long as young African-Americans listen to the type of music that he, Bill O’Reilly, deems inappropriate, they will never be elevated out of poverty.

“They idolize these guys with the hats on backwards and the terrible rap lyrics and the drug and all of that,” Bill O’Reilly helpfully explained to Valerie Jarrett. “You got to get these guys, and I think President Obama can do it, and you’ve got to put them on TV. And they got to say knock it off.”

O’Reilly also told Jarrett that young black males in America are unaware of positive African American role models such as former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, whom Jarrett called an “excellent role model.” But Jarrett disputed that black teenagers have never heard of Colin Powell.

As Valerie Jarrett also pointed out, Barack Obama himself, the first African American to become president, also serves as a positive role model and certainly as well known as Kanye West.

Watch the whole Valerie Jarrett vs. Bill O’Reilly exchange right here: