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Kanye West: When I Said Slavery Was "A Choice," I Meant "We Can Make Our Own Reality"
Real Clear Politics Video ^ | May 2,2018 | TIm Hains

Posted on 05/02/2018 9:14:28 PM PDT by Hojczyk

In the full 30-minute exchange on the set of TMZ, Kanye West talked about why "spirit" inspired him to embrace President Trump's "Make America Great Again" hat and attitude. Comments Kanye made about slavery, liposuction, and opioid addiction in the first few minutes overshadowed the coverage of his larger point: Break out of your mental prisons.

"I knew there was going to be a reaction" to wearing the hat, he said. "But I'm just living my life day by day doing what I feel and what the spirit calls upon me to do... I know I disappointed the black community when I wore the hat, it is a bigger plan, and I'm just doing what the universe told me."

"We're mentally in prison," Kanye West said. "I like to use the word prison because slavery goes too direct to the idea of blacks... Holocaust/Jews, Slavery/Blacks. So prison is something that unites us as one race, blacks and whites being one race, the human race. We're human beings and stuff."

"Black people have a tendency to march when a white person kills a black person or wears a hat but when it is 700 kids being killed in Chicago, it is OK. it is OK for blacks to kill other blacks. But if it's a white thing... 90% of blacks are killed by other blacks," he said.

"I think we have to get next to everyone," he said later about President Trump. "If we don't like Trump, we have to talk to them, We have to talk because Trump is a human being also, and he is in a very powerful position, and he is doing a lot of things to actually help business owners get past all these fake laws and rules and things...

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1 posted on 05/02/2018 9:14:28 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

The protesters of the 50s wanted to live like “Whites”.
They didn’t fight to be “Black”. They had that already.

This fellow is starting to interest me.


2 posted on 05/02/2018 9:17:48 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Hojczyk

THis was a good observation

“We talk about race so much we don’t even talk about class,” Kanye added. “There’s a class war happening right now too. And the class war is one of the reasons why Trump won because Obama was so high class that it stopped speaking to the lower and the middle class. He’s so classy”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lWJBWU7asEg&ebc=ANyPxKokvcss8OcgQnkAqXT0ERRmcNvMyWOozTDcCMmKNPUS9Aj3BmgOe1J6wc6kdxCYiYAOuGcVOUenpLxz6XXbXMaXbqMAPA

Know nothing about the guy...but if the black vote went from
10 to 30 percent the rats are in trouble...


3 posted on 05/02/2018 9:18:08 PM PDT by Hojczyk (e)
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To: Hojczyk

He meant that living the slavery, reparations and usual cult crap that keeps blacks down is a choice. A choice not to make.

The Democrat party is a cult.


4 posted on 05/02/2018 9:18:15 PM PDT by Snowybear
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To: Hojczyk

Yes, it is clear that is what he meant. Slavery is long over but some are enslaved in their minds. That is a loser attitude in life.


5 posted on 05/02/2018 9:18:16 PM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: Hojczyk

This guy has legs for sanity.


6 posted on 05/02/2018 9:19:22 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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To: mrsmith

Liberal kryptonite. careful everyone.


7 posted on 05/02/2018 9:22:49 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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To: Hojczyk

Hey Kanye we know exactly what you meant.


8 posted on 05/02/2018 9:23:30 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Hojczyk

Every black person I know interpreted West’s remarks the way Maxine Waters did, wrongly. It was so obvious what he was trying to say , yet because it went against the black narrative, he was vilified for it.


9 posted on 05/02/2018 9:31:44 PM PDT by sueuprising (The best of it is, God is with us-John Wesley)
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To: Hojczyk
The happy, successful blacks whom I worked with did not have the slave victimhood mentality.
 
10 posted on 05/02/2018 9:35:21 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: sueuprising

He’s making people think about it though.


11 posted on 05/02/2018 9:37:26 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: Hojczyk

Kanye is humanizing every person’s potential, regardless of race. That’s a beautiful thing.


12 posted on 05/02/2018 9:39:41 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: Hojczyk

Too late Kanye. I knew that when you first made your statement that you screwed up, saying it the way you said it. The enemy picked it up and broadcast your error far and wide.

Can’t unring that bell.


13 posted on 05/02/2018 9:45:17 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: Hojczyk

bookmark


14 posted on 05/02/2018 10:20:12 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: sueuprising

Being a “Victim” meant you got special treatment, add on to that the “slave guilt” and angry black uprisings and all of the placating has made things even worse for them

Watch the TMZ interview with Kanye & Candace Owens, very interesting....


15 posted on 05/02/2018 10:31:49 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: Hojczyk

Careful, Kanye. You may not be worried about the Crips, but you better be worried about these types. They're plotting an end to your "show".

16 posted on 05/02/2018 11:22:30 PM PDT by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
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To: Hojczyk

They know. There will be disagreement between black people on that issue. Most likely, in time, more people will like what the Trump Administration is doing. That’s the trend so far.


17 posted on 05/03/2018 12:20:42 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Hojczyk

When I first heard Kanye’s words, I thought of this...Bob Marley

Redemption Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GQh_p4mFyE


18 posted on 05/03/2018 12:30:58 AM PDT by KJC1 (Illegals: One hand out and the other one flipping us the bird)
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To: bkopto
Can’t I ring that bell

Unfortunately you may be correct. The Left interprets things by the way it feels, then says it over and over - this is how they establish truth in 50% of people.

Seems like this tactic is more and more mainstream these days.

And, just like that, we have a new Left-created demon to divide us.
19 posted on 05/03/2018 2:12:02 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: doug from upland

Slavery is long over

In the USA, but the same Islamic slavers continue the trade in Africa and the ME.


20 posted on 05/03/2018 3:46:07 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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