Posted on 05/02/2018 8:53:35 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
(CNN)Tuesday brought us two Kanyes.
The first was a man who opened up about his mental health, his family, and his art in a nearly-two hour interview with radio host Charlamagne Tha God. The second was a Kanye who appeared at the TMZ headquarters where 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."
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I think people understood what he said........but I like that he’s certainly nudging the black community! Worth paying attention to see who he shakes out along the way.......exposing folks is a plus!
If he did not mean that they were still talking about it, then I might have to look at his medications. But the context was probably that people were still talking about it.
I think Kanje meant that blacks who continue to talk about 400 years of slavery, and have never been a slave for even one day, are adopting a mentality, by choice, that enslaves them by providing that built in excuse for any failure or shortcoming.
The #1 priority of many black “leaders” and some blacks in general seems to be to preserve and enhance their victim status, and that is also a form of enslavement by choice.
There were slave revolts, but they were too small and too few. That is probably his point of reference; they didn’t want freedom badly enough to CHOOSE to fight for it.
He will say he is off his meds and all will be forgiven.
.....”slavery was not Pro Choice”....
It is today, all have a choice to live in the past or move forward to now and the future. There are few if any true slaves left today from that time. It’s 2018!
Well, the colonies were not slaves to England for 400 years and there is a reason for that. ;)
hint, hint...
I heard about this on the local Houston Channel 2 News this morning. I didn’t hear exactly what Kanye said, but the media are really reporting this breathlessly in an attempt to ridicule Kanye so that any other Pro-Trump or anti-leftist comment he makes will appear to be the utterance of a fool.
Exactly..
That’s what I also thought he was saying.
Kanye has escaped the planation and must be destroyed.
The MSM is doing the bidding of the leftwing goons and blaring these out of context headlines, always with a mention of his “mental health” in the story.
As a great American once said, "There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well." - Booker T. Washington
“Kanye West just said 400 years of slavery was a choice”
That’s not what he said; it’s an interpretation of what he said. Funny how that happens. In context, the “choice” seems to be whether to obsess about it, or move on.
I’m personally loving Kanye is shaking up blacks.........now maybe they’ll get out of the victim mode and live life instead of wallowing in the past!
It is pretty obvious that he meant 400 years is too long. Way too long, and the reason is choice. The only chains are self imposed.
He means “We’re still MENTALLY imprisoned today”. I understand what he’s trying to say.
Are you deaf, CNN, or just stupid?
Not to infer too much into Kanye, but the statement works on a number of levels. I think he meant if you’re still talking about “400 years” all the time, at a certain point you’re making a choice to do so. But technically there was only 250 years of slavery, so if you’re saying 400 that means the other 150 were by choice.
CNN has an agenda. If being stupid is part of it so be it.
Freedom or death!
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