Black Entertainment : Kanye West.. has he lost his mind?

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All I can do is :facepalm:

Kanye West seems ignorant on the realities of slavery. That’s shockingly common

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By Eugene Scott
Eugene Scott writes about identity politics for The Fix. He was previously a breaking news reporter at CNN Politics.
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... West appears to either lack or be ignoring foundational knowledge about race and politics taught in entry-level American government and history classes, unfortunately, he is not alone.

A 2015 McClatchy-Marist poll asked, “Was slavery the main reason for the Civil War, or not,” more than four in 10 Americans said it was not, only 55 percent said they believed students should be taught slavery was the reason for the Civil War, in the South, fewer than half thought that should be taught.

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listen, Miles Davis is my musical father.. I have everything that Miles ever
did.. Been listening to him for my entire life.. even stuck with the trumpet
when I really wanted to play the Sax because of Miles and his music..

Kanye is as much a Genius in his Art form as Miles was in his, especially
in his early years.. Kanye is a baby.. his best work is yet to come. But all
of the elements of a true artist are there.. don't short change him because
he's a hip-hopper..

Jazz purists said the same thing about Miles and Louis Armstrong. The
considered Louis Armstrong a genius and Miles as lacking.. but that was
just a generational thing.. like this.. I do wonder what kind of horn player
Kanye would make.. or what kind of Painter.. or Dancer.. I think he would
be great at whatever form he had the discipline to take-up.

anyway..

The industry has a way of squeezing the life out of our Artists.. he has to
liberate himself from the record-label hustle and get independent.. remember,
Miles and Trane could put out whatever they wanted.. They could just dive
into themselves and put out whatever they came up with.. Even though Miles
was saying some radical sh** with his music, because it wasn't literal,
white folks didn't really understand it and, as a result, didn't block it from
reaching the masses. So that generation of Artists had a free-er expression
than the ones today.. I remember Rkelly talking about very early in his
career.. about the record label only wanting to hear R.Kelly and not Robert..
so he shopped all his other stuff to other singers and he stuck with
the raunchy stuff that they wanted to hear.. even though it's all him, they
were only interested in that part of him and not the others.. Kanye lucked
out with Rockafella.. no other label would have put out the "Jesus Wallks"..
not in the Mainstream.. never. He's an honest dude and I'm always
interested in his next project.​
I wouldn't compare him to Miles His body of work in the beginning had hints of genius he just hasn't grown. The level of contamination he has suffered is exponentially greater than his spirit and the spirits of those around him. I do not see him lasting much longer. I hope I am wrong.
 
 
Kenya been living in a white world for much to long. He’s starting to try and justify slavery as we had the man power, why didn’t we leave. That leaves the impression that we stayed of our free will.
This must make his/Kim’s family more comfortable.
Kenya is whipped. Really, he’s probably being whipped with a rope and tied to pipes in the basement until it’s time to go to work.
This reminds me of when Porsha of RHOA asked if there was a train in the Underground Railroad.
Her and Kenya are in the same age bracket.
I believe this is the lost generation of Blacks.
 
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:wow: You are nowhere near Harriet or Nat, Kanye. If you had any sense at all, you'd be pushing the establishment to pay Reparations to Black folk :facepalm:

Kanye West Tweets Fake Harriet Tubman Quote After Saying Slavery Was 'A Choice'

Jenna Amatulli

HuffPost


... The quote appeared just after West compared himself to both Tubman and Nat Turner, two Americans born into slavery who were pivotal in the fight for abolition in the 19th century. There’s no hard evidence that Tubman actually said this quote, the fact-checking site Snopes has pretty much debunked it.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/kanye-we...-183204158.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_15
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Kanye West -
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. - Harriet Tubman

— KANYE WEST (KanyeWest) May 2, 2018

 

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