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| Topic Started: May 8 2018, 09:32 PM (106 Views) | |
| Zechariah | May 8 2018, 09:32 PM Post #1 |
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Kanye West is a race traitor, declares Atlantic columnist Ta-Nehisi Coates Kanye West is abandoning his black roots by embracing President Donald Trump and “white freedom,” says author and activist Ta-Nehisi Coates, the latest celebrity piling onto the rapper over his political views. In a 5,000-word essay in The Atlantic magazine, the author of ‘We Were Eight Years in Power’ argues that many African-Americans, including himself, had considered West a “god” akin to Michael Jackson. “The rule of Donald Trump is predicated on the infliction of maximum misery on West’s most ardent parishioners, the portions of America, the muck, that made the god Kanye possible,” Coates wrote. “But for black artists who rise to the heights of Jackson and West, the weight is more, because they come from communities in desperate need of champions.”Two weeks ago, West set Twitter on fire by posting a photo of an autographed Make America Great Again hat and calling Trump a “brother” who shared his “dragon energy.” He refused to walk back his comments in the face of a backlash from many black celebrities, saying instead that he was a free thinker who refused to live in the “prison” prescribed by others. “[Kanye] is, indeed, championing a kind of freedom — a white freedom, freedom without consequence, freedom without criticism, freedom to be proud and ignorant... the freedom of rape buttons, pussy grabbers... the freedom of suburbs drawn with red lines, the white freedom of Calabasas,” Coates wrote, referring to the California hometown of West’s wife, Kim Kardashian. Incidentally, Kardashian’s stepfather became one of the most recognizable transgender people in the world, Caitlyn Jenner – and just so happens to share West’s newfound conservative brand of politics. This did not prevent Coates from accusing West of betraying the “young people among the despised classes of America... the children parted from their parents at the border, the women warring to control the reproductive organs of their own bodies, the transgender soldier fighting for his job.” This brand of identity politics was at the heart of Coates’ widely publicized online spat with popular intellectual Cornel West in 2017, a row which would ultimately see Coates withdraw from Twitter and delete his account altogether, despite having over 1.25 million followers. Kanye West has over 28 million followers on Twitter. It appeared that he lost about 10 million of them on the day he came out as a Trump supporter, but Twitter dismissed those reports as a glitch. A Detroit radio station did ban his songs from being played, however, while a number of black celebrities have sought to distance themselves from West for siding with the “oppressor.”While Coates’ essay was praised in liberal circles, with many fawning over the piece in carbon-copy tweets, the conservative movement’s most vocal advocates on Twitter did not share that point of view. Some argued that the praise was for Coates’ prose, not his point, arguing that it was merely a racially-charged case of style over substance. https://www.rt.com/usa/426092-kanye-white-freedom-slavery/ |
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| U Thant | May 8 2018, 09:35 PM Post #2 |
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Stop being jealous of Kanye, you racist White man. Kim is not going to commit adultery with you. Now get back to daydreaming about sex crimes featuring Bambatta. You pervert. |
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| U Thant | May 8 2018, 09:43 PM Post #3 |
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Herman Cain: Kanye West is right Kanye West is coming in for heaps of criticism following his comments about slavery during a TMZ video, but not from Herman Cain. The author, businessman and broadcaster who made bids for the U.S. Senate and White House, is out with a post titled “Kanye says ‘slavery for 400 years, that feels like a choice’; here’s why he’s right.” “People are too busy venting their outrage with him to really hear what he’s trying to tell them,” Cain wrote. “If they would listen, they would realize the message is empowering, and I know that because it’s the same message I’ve lived by throughout my adult life.” Cain’s take is that Kanye was referring to “intellectual and emotional slavery” as opposed to actual bondage. “Now of course, black people did not choose slavery during the period of world history when we were subjected to it. And Kanye is not saying we did,” the post continues. “What he’s talking about is the mindset that persists to this day, one of victimhood and “struggle.” It’s one that still thinks, even after all these years, that everyone is out to get us, kill us, keep us down and marginalize us. And it’s one that insists on responding to this supposed state of affairs by imposing a rigid orthodoxy that doesn’t permit black people to think for themselves or make up their own minds about anything.” Kanye tweeted after the TMZ interview...
... Cain is the author of several books, appears on occasion as a Fox News contributor and hosts a radio showing airing on WSB radio which, like the AJC, is part of Cox Media Group Atlanta. Edited by U Thant, May 8 2018, 09:48 PM.
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| Zechariah | May 8 2018, 09:44 PM Post #4 |
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Hahaha, it's clear to everyone here that you go both ways. While lusting for Kim, you also want the pleasure of the fat homo, Bambatta. You are the incredibly stupid and abominable fool who brought them both into this thread. Did you think that people here wouldn't see that? Everyone reading this knows that Kim and your butt buddy, Bambatta was brought into this thread by YOU. Such a stupid and easy little boy.
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| U Thant | May 9 2018, 07:07 AM Post #5 |
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| Zechariah | May 11 2018, 10:33 PM Post #6 |
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| U Thant | May 13 2018, 09:18 AM Post #7 |
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| U Thant | May 22 2018, 10:08 PM Post #8 |
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Kanye West Politics 101: Trump support is okay even if you are Black and famous by G.H. Reynolds Kanye West reminds us of our right to 'independent thought,' including support for Trump, in the face of pressure to hide unpopular views and stick with our tribes. Political parties, and political leaders, need to control people. (And what’s more, they want to control people, which is why they are in politics). They use a variety of tools for doing so, but two of the most important were on full display last week: Preference falsification and tribalism. They go together, and Kanye West, of all people, made that clear and showed how to undermine them. Preference falsification, as spelled out by Timur Kuran in his superb book, Private Truths, Public Lies, is where people tend to hide unpopular views to avoid ostracism or punishment; they stop hiding them when they feel safe. In totalitarian societies like the old Soviet Union, the police and propaganda organizations do their best to enforce preference falsification. Such regimes have little legitimacy, but they spend a lot of effort making sure that citizens don't realize the extent to which their fellow-citizens dislike the regime. If the secret police and the censors are doing their job, 99% of the populace can hate the regime and be ready to revolt against it — but no revolt will occur because no one realizes that everyone else feels the same way. But preference falsification also occurs outside of police states. In today’s America, certain people — members of minority groups, and entertainers, in particular — are pressured to publicly support Democrats or, at the very least, to refrain from supporting Republicans, regardless of their true feelings. We saw that recently when country singer Shania Twain commented that she could understand why people voted for Trump, only to be forced by a Twitter mob to recant and apologize shortly thereafter. And we saw it even more strongly when rapper Kanye West tweeted support for Trump a few days later. A bigger star than Shania Twain, Kanye has refused to back down, and even garnered public support from his normally non-political wife, Kim Kardashian West, and from Chance The Rapper (who noted that "Black people don’t have to be Democrats,”), though Chance, like Shania Twain, later chickened out and apologized. Kanye tweeted:
And when fellow musician John Legend chided him for these statements and said he was letting down his fans, Kanye responded: “I love you John and I appreciate your thoughts. You bringing up my fans is a tactic based on fear used to manipulate my free thought.” West's new song on the subject points out that “Lot of people agree with me, but they're too scared to speak up." Which is the whole point of preference falsification. Independent thought is the opposite of preference falsification, and independent thinkers are the preference-falsifier’s worst nightmare. They want you following the herd. But as Kanye observed, “Free thinkers don't fear retaliation for your thoughts. The traditional thinkers are only using thoughts and words but they are in a mental prison. You are free. You've already won. Feel energized. Move in love not fear. Be afraid of nothing.” He added, "If your friend jumps off the bridge you don't have to do the same.” He’s right, of course. Keeping people divided into tribes is an important part of politics, and making sure they don’t say things that might make people reconsider their tribalism threatens the whole feedlot. Hence the overwhelming reaction to anyone who threatens the system with individual thought. West is now under attack from other entertainers like Macy Gray and Snoop Dogg. But whether he caves or not, his challenge — and the response — has demonstrated how much of today’s politics is based on tribalism, and how threatening it is to the powers that be when people say nice things about the wrong people. Meanwhile, some parting words: “I love when people have their own ideas. You don't have to be allowed anymore. Just be. Love who you want to love. That's free thought. I'm not even political. I'm not a democrat or a republican.” And you don’t have to be either. ... Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor and the author of The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself, is a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors. Follow him on Twitter: @instapundit. |
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your misery needs company, so you came mentioning sex crimes which you feel you and Bambaata have in common
3:32 PM Jul 11