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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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To: Hojczyk

Can’t help it - I’m actually starting to like a rapper...wonders never cease.....


21 posted on 05/03/2018 3:52:32 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: Hojczyk

Anyone with a brain and without an agenda knew exactly what he meant the first time he said it.


22 posted on 05/03/2018 4:00:41 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: sueuprising

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.


23 posted on 05/03/2018 4:48:59 AM PDT by jimjohn (2nd American Civil War: ongoing since January 20, 2017.)
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To: Hojczyk

“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.


24 posted on 05/03/2018 4:52:38 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Hojczyk

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.


25 posted on 05/03/2018 5:07:17 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: Hojczyk

I can almost guarantee that he read Booker T. Washington’s book, “Up From Slavery” - a read that should be mandatory for ALL people.


26 posted on 05/03/2018 5:14:23 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: Hojczyk
Kanye West: When I Said Slavery Was "A Choice," I Meant "We Can Make Our Own Reality"

To paraphrase, West can make his own reality but he can't make his own facts.

27 posted on 05/03/2018 5:19:08 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

“We can make our own reality”

Wait’ll everyone remembers that it was Oprah Winfrey who made this popular.


28 posted on 05/03/2018 5:39:30 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Hojczyk
Slavery Was A Choice

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.

29 posted on 05/03/2018 6:15:03 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe)
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To: bkopto
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,...

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

30 posted on 05/03/2018 7:20:39 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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