Butch Ware

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Rudolph "Butch" T. Ware III (born 1974), also known as Bilal Ware in the American Muslim community, is an American associate professor and hip hop artist who was the vice presidential nominee for the Green Party in 2024. He is one half of the hip hop duo Slum Prophecy. On the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Ware has been vocal about the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the Gaza genocide. He has organized teach-ins, community education curricula, and other organizing initiatives. Ware has been active as a public intellectual, activist, artist, and organizer, claiming in public statements to support "communities across the country and around the world [challenging] imperialism, ethnic cleansing, and war". He advocates for building sustainable, peaceful alternatives rooted in African, Indigenous, and Abrahamic traditions. He was a write-in candidate governor of California in the 2026 gubernatorial election.

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