Posted on 05/07/2018 6:26:36 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom.
I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely seven years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it. Yes, it had to have happened like this, like folk wisdom, because when I think of that era, I do not think of MTV, but of the futile attempt to stay awake and navigate the yawning whiteness of Friday Night Videos, and I remember that there were no VCRs among us then, and so it would have had to have been there that I saw it, in the auditorium which adjoined the cafeteria, where after the daily serving of tater tots and chocolate milk, a curtain divider was pulled back and all the kids stormed the stage. And I would have been there among them, awkwardly uprocking, or worming in place, or stiffly snaking, or back-spinning like a broken rotor, and I would have looked up and seen a kid, slightly older, facing me, smiling to himself, then moving across the floor by popping up alternating heels, gliding in reverse, walking on the moon.
Nothing happens that way anymore. Nothing can. But this was 1982, and Michael Jackson was God, but not just God in scope and power, though there was certainly that, but God in his great mystery; God in how a child would hear tell of him, God in how he lived among the legend and lore; God because the Walkman was still uncommon, and I was young and could not count on the car radio, because my parents lived between NPR and WTOP.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
What a stupid name
Wanna bet if Martin Luther King were alive today, he’d be called an “Uncle Tom”?
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ defense of racism and his (her?) insistence that skin color is the most important thing about a person is repugnant to me. Those Democrats have been pushing this terrible idea for over 150 years. One skin color is good, one skin color is bad. It’s horrifying that the Left still holds to this terrible type of thinking.
Personally, I prefer the Republicans who have consistently valued people as individuals and have emphasized a person’s ideas over their skin color. What the heck does skin color matter? Why can’t Democrats see that they are on the wrong side of history?
Yep ...and this guy has made an entire life out of race hustling.
Agreed, it’s despicable how they judge people by race. There isn’t anything more racist than that.
Yeah I think he would.
It is well documented that in 1986, Michael was diagnosed with Vitiligo and Lupus. Vitiligo is a chronic disorder that causes depigmentation of patches of skin. It occurs when melanocytes, the cells responsible for skin pigmentation, die or are unable to function.
What does he expect when white Europeans mostly engineered and worked the hardest to bring civilization and science to the modern world. If you don’t like it here, return to your native shithole.
Yes, I see....
Michael Jackson, who spent his whole life trying to go from being a poor black boy to a rich white girl, was God.
I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely seven years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it.
verbal diarrhea is spiritual diarrhea in this case.
Only he can properly discern the horrible treatment he has received and fashion it with such brilliant articulation into the enlightened feces-throwing he epitomizes.
I, for one, wish him nothing but the continued orgasmic pleasure he apparently derives wallowing in his own filth.
This is nothing but racist hate speech and Coates should be banned from twitter and Facebook permanently for her ugly hate.
Writer is a mental case. The Atlantic hates Trump and hates Kanye because he doesn’t.
Kanye is not okay, but for the time being, he is saying things no black is allowed to think. That can change at any moment.
Yea back then you were probably 7% of the population.
Keep yipping though..
“Kanye, get yer black *ss back here on this plantation! Who the hell do you think you are running off like that?”
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