Minnesota rapper Tufawon has urged white Americans to “go f— s— up” and “raise hell” after returning from violent protests in France.
The artist, whose real name is Rafael Gonzalez Jr., 40, traveled to France to join escalating riots outside Paul Éluard high school alongside Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. The Minneapolis-based musician, who is part Native American and has appeared on The Breakfast Club radio show, addressed balaclava-clad protesters and performed his song “No One Is Illegal” before leading chants of “f— ICE” and “ICE out.”
“All power to the people,” he boasted to his fans on Facebook. “After returning home from France I can clearly see how we need to become far more radicalized in the states.”
“We have to be more enraged. Our comfort is hindering our progress. It really and truly needs to be white people that go outside and raise hell if we want to see revolution.”
“There are far too many neoliberals that are just as bad as the fascists. The French have figured this out a while ago. Now it’s time to take it to the next level. Go f— s— up white people. It’s your time.”
His call for domestic unrest comes as communist-linked groups in the US appear to be working to bring similar demonstrations to Washington, DC. Code Pink, a nonprofit with ties to Neville Singham and the Chinese Communist Party, has scheduled what it calls a “taxpayer uprising” in the nation’s capital between November 10 and 12. The feminist anti-war group, led by Jodie Evans, 72, a radical Hollywood filmmaker and wife of Shanghai-based tech millionaire Singham, has called on protesters to flood the halls of Congress for “three days of peaceful resistance.” Yet Evans simultaneously urged Americans to “look at France” as a model for street action.
The Singham-linked Party for Socialism and Liberation, based in the US, has also committed to supporting the French protesters. “We in the United States stand with you in your struggle against capitalist austerity,” the group wrote on Instagram. “We stand with you, because we too demand money for housing and education, instead of war and occupation. Vive la commune! Vive la révolution!”
Mike Gonzalez, a foreign policy expert at the Heritage Foundation who fled communist Cuba in the 1970s, has traced these connections to an international network. “They said they were going to globalize the intifada and now they have,” he said. “What you are seeing here is the red-green alliance, the marriage of convenience between leftists and Marxists. They have a common enemy which is the Judeo-Christian democratic West. They want to dismantle it.”
Gonzalez insists that China, Cuba and Iran are directing these protests. “These activists are taught to despise their own society,” he said. “The groups involved in elevating the French protests, a lot are in the Singham network.” He called Tufawon’s rhetoric dangerous. “If people listen to him and act upon what he is recommending it is very dangerous.”
The French demonstrations have targeted cultural heritage sites and luxury commerce, with rioters torching the 140-year-old city hall in Limoges and hitting stores including Louis Vuitton, Hermes, and Apple. Police made 2,500 arrests across France, while nearly 1,000 officers were injured over the weekend. French President Emmanuel Macron said that “nothing justifies” the riots and blamed the “unrestrained violence” on “insurrectionist elements from radical far-left groups, joined by numerous criminals.”
Vice President JD Vance blamed mass immigration for the violent scenes. “Western liberals imported the Third World into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this, and they didn’t listen,” he wrote on X. “I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.”
Tufawon claimed that the perceived underfunding of schools and declining public services in France mirrors conditions in the US. “I’m incredibly inspired by what’s going on with the student activists and organizers,” he said. “The most marginalized students, the brown and the black students are the ones that are feeling the implications the worst.” He urged fellow protesters in the US to “take influence from the French” so that they can defeat the “same common enemy.”
Tufawon, Code Pink and the Party for Socialism and Liberation declined to comment.
Code Pink’s planned “taxpayer uprising” in Washington, DC is scheduled to run from November 10 through November 12.