A black man is having his free speech censored for talking about freedom and people's right to think for themselves.
Kanye West has been the subject of a media firestorm lately because of comments he made on Twitter. Normally, I wouldn't care. I don't even have a Twitter account. I know gasp. Kanye's comments seem to be the comments of someone who has awakened to conservative ideas. It is an awakening that seems to be happening more often as people from the black community are starting to realize that their loyalty to the Democrats may be misplaced. In fact some of them are reacting with a kind of rage that is much deserved as they realized that they have been lied to for years and they are now realizing the truth.
Kanye has been talking much about thinking for yourself and expressing his support for Donald Trump. As you might expect the media and all of the liberal celebrities have been losing their minds. One rapper even asked the street gang The Crips to take him the F@#% out if he ever comes to LA.
The poop really hit the fan when Kanye did an interview on TMZ. He had this to say.
"When you hear about slavery for 400 years ... For 400 years? That sounds like a choice."
The rapper went on to add:
"You were there for 400 years and it's all of y'all. It's like we're mentally imprisoned."
Tanisha Ford, associate professor of Africana studies and history at University of Delaware, joined CBSN on Tuesday to discuss the impact of his remarks.
"Those comments show how completely out of touch Kanye is at this moment in time, and I think they would have his mother Donda West, a former college professor, enraged," Ford said.
"It's a far-cry from the Kanye West we knew who made the song 'Crack Music,' which made a link between slavery, the prison industrial complex and the rise of crack cocaine used in the black community."
West also drew immediate criticism online with writers and political commentators calling his comments on slavery trite and dangerous.
In a series of 16 tweets, West attempted to clarify his comments by saying "we need an open discussion and ideas on unsettled pain." He insisted his comments were "free thought" and "just an idea.”
to make myself clear. Of course I know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 1, 2018
My point is for us to have stayed in that position even though the numbers were on our side means that we were mentally enslaved
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 1, 2018
They cut out our tongues so we couldn't communicate to each other. I will not allow my tongue to be cut
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 1, 2018
the reason why I brought up the 400 years point is because we can't be mentally imprisoned for another 400 years. We need free thought now. Even the statement was an example of free thought It was just an idea
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 1, 2018
once again I am being attacked for presenting new ideas
As you can imagine people have been losing their minds ever since. Kanye has tried to clarify several times. When he drew criticism over photos with a MAGA hat on he had this to say.
"It was really just my subconscious. It was a feeling I had, you know. Like, people -- we're taught how to think. We're taught how to feel. We don't know how to think for ourselves. We don't know how to feel for ourselves," he told TMZ. "People say 'feel free,' but they don't really want us to feel free. I felt a freedom, first of all, in doing something that everybody tells you not to do."
So allow me to interpret Kanye's 400 years comment, because to me it isn't really that complicated. Although Kanye could have said what he meant a little more clearly.
So in 1617 we find the first records of African slaves in Bermuda which was a permanent British Colony. So if you do the math that is a little over 400 years of slaves in the new world.
Now about 150 years ago slavery was officially made illegal in the United States in 1862. So Kanye is including the 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation in that collective 400 years of slavery comment.
So what Kanye is saying is that if you are still talking about being a slave in present day America where slavery has been illegal for about 150 years then it is a choice that you are making to do so.
Now the irony about all of this is that now Kanye, black man, is having his free speech censored by Twitter, because he dared to talked about freedom and encouraging others to think for themselves. *gasp*
Up until now I have refrained from saying a lot about this Kanye issue. For one thing I have been waiting to see if he will back pedal and apologize like so many other celebrities have that had a moment of wakefulness. Most have crumbled beneath the pressure and the threats and slinked back to the plantation with their tale between their legs whipped into submission by the PC police.
I really hope that Kanye has the courage to continue to stand up for free thought and free speech. He is an unlikely champion of freedom, but a welcome one if he has the courage to tough it out. Only time will tell.
Let's get back to honest journalism.
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Daring to leave the Democrats. More about people in the black community that are daring to think for themselves.
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