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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Can’t help it - I’m actually starting to like a rapper...wonders never cease.....
Anyone with a brain and without an agenda knew exactly what he meant the first time he said it.
This black man knew exactly what he was saying. In fact, it’s been stated before by myself another others in the past.
Fredrick Douglass, William E.B DuBois, etc.
There have even been other rappers that have put it into their songs.
But these are the voices that usually get drown out by the noise, or in some cases out right threatened. (e.g. Chance the Rapper).
My advice to Mr. West: double your security, and make sure you are not alone with any woman other than you wife.
With all that in mind: When they come for him, she’ll either be the target or the catalyst.
“Trump is a human being also...”
Wow, if Kanye had only said that much, he would have DESTROYED everything the Democrats claim about Trump, and Republicans as a whole.
...but he said much more, obviously.
He meant the slaves should have risen up and overthrown their oppressors. They didn’t, leading him to say that they remained slaves by choice.
I can almost guarantee that he read Booker T. Washington’s book, “Up From Slavery” - a read that should be mandatory for ALL people.
To paraphrase, West can make his own reality but he can't make his own facts.
“We can make our own reality”
Wait’ll everyone remembers that it was Oprah Winfrey who made this popular.
Slavery Was IS "A Choice.
Each person can take a decision to become comfortable with one or more of over 2,000 government assistance programs or to avoid becoming a slave dependent on government handouts.
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Kipling
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