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The single biggest threat to the future of the Dem party would be if African-Americans abandoned their overwhelming support for Dem candidates. It’s bad enough, from the Dem perspective, that under President Trump black unemployment has hit record lows. Now comes a major black celebrity openly embracing Trump. He must be destroyed!And so it was that on CNN this morning, Chris Cuomo did his best to undermine Kanye West and his support for the President. Cuomo first depicted West’s endorsement as a publicity stunt by a celebrity “desperate for attention.” Cuomo then took things an ugly step further, suggesting that...

So, Kanye West has decided to leave the 21st century plantation. Way, way off the plantation:There will be hell to pay. For starters the media will try to make him out to be a mad man. The artist’s latest statements follow media outrage over the weekend after he claimed to love the thinking of conservative black activist Candace Owens, AKA Red Pill Black. On Monday he continued outraging the left by tweeting videos of conservative icon Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, examining the “golden age” taking place and discussing breaking free from “prisons of the mind.”That day West also fired...

Kanye West is no stranger to controversy. After Hurricane Katrina, Kayne went on live TV to tell the world that President Bush didn’t care about black people. At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, he ruined Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech by jumping on stage and telling the world that Beyoncé should have won. Now, Kanye is stirring up the most controversy yet by telling the world he likes President Trump. Here is the tweet to prove it: You don't have to agree with trump but the mob can't make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is...

Following a tweet storm during which he vocalized support for Donald Trump, celebrities have started unfollowing Kanye West on Twitter. Not exactly shocking. Pop Crave reports that Justin Bieber, BTS, The Weeknd, Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, and Kendrick Lamar are among the musicians who have unfollowed the rapper in the wake of his comments, which YIKES. A quick perusal also indicates that John Legend isn't following Kanye, nor is Chrissy Teigen, Khloé Kardashian, or Kylie Jenner (though it's possible this has nothing to do with his recent tweets). While a few celebs have supported Kanye...

As the president promotes and excitedly tweets about a potential for peace between the two warring Koreas, he has displayed almost as much excitement over the recent overtures of one of America’s most acclaimed rappers. But it wasn’t just about Kanye this week. President Donald Trump and his allies once again plunged feet first into the pop-culture wars, riffing on Canadian singer-songwriter Shania Twain, YouTube celebs Diamond & Silk, and, of course, his bizarre bromance with Kanye West. It’s a sign that shows how vanishingly little has changed about Trump’s priorities and character ever since assuming the highest office in...

When Kanye West praised President Trump for having “dragon energy” and being “my brother” in a tweet noting, “You don’t have to agree with trump but the mob can’t make me not love him,” social media went full Chernobyl. In his return to Twitter after a long hiatus, West also urged “breaking out of our mental prisons,” said “the thought police want to suppress freedom of thought” and gave a shout-out to Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams. Yet for someone as young, black and cool as West to give a thumbs-up to Trump was like an electromagnetic pulse that fried the...

In his latest expletive laid outburst, actor Michael Rapaport blasted “Cuckoo’s Nest” Kanye West’s recent embrace of President Donald Trump on Twitter, calling the rapper’s decision a “problem.” “I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat,” Rapaport declared. “Honestly, I don’t know the really know the true difference between a Republican or a Democrat.” Cuckoo’s Nest Kanye thinks he’s kicking knowledge? Out here sounding crazy on the yard.@iamrapaport Rapaport’s comments came after West praised Trump on Twitter, even posting a photo of himself wearing a campaign ‘Make America Great Again’ cap. The actor, 48, went on to question...

Rap megastar Kanye West released a new song on Saturday sending what could be considered one of the boldest political statement’s in rap history — questioning black Americans’ near-monolithic support of the Democratic Party. The fiery track, “Ye vs the People,” sees the Chicago crooner in a back-in-forth lyrical debate about the merits of thinking freely and the political and economic state of black Americans, as well as addressing the fallout from West’s seeming embrace of President Donald Trump, with actor-rapper T.I. “Then one day I was like, I’ma do me, I was in the sunken place and then I...

Something happened very recently that may have launched a political disruption that completely upsets the traditional calculation for political elections. And that’s not an overstatement, because the margins are so close in so many states that a small shift in the current alignment could have a major impact. What happened? Grammy Award-winning rapper and producer and publicity hound Kanye West tweeted. His initial tweet was simply “I like the way Candace Owens thinks.” Candace Owens is a black, conservative woman who believes in personal responsibility, opposes blacks blaming whites for all of their problems and thinks blacks should not be...

The fact of the matter is, no matter how much vitriolic hate West gets – and oh yes, he’s getting it – he has actively changed culture. Just by speaking up boldly and bravely in the face of Hollywood’s thought police, he’s secured his icon status. Icons shift thinking. Icons go against the grain. Icons challenge views and speak frankly, even if they are the only ones doing so. The fact that West has come out shows that it’s OK not to vote Democratic. He’s a hardworking black man who realizes personal freedom doesn’t come from the left’s stranglehold. Maybe...

The Roots member Questlove performed at the Concert for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama on Friday night and wore a T-shirt that read, “Kanye Doesn’t Care About Black People” and “This Is An Alt-Right Dream.” It's in the same font and style as Kanye’s iconic The Life of Pablo merch. Rolling Stone writer Jamil Smith shared a photo of Questlove wearing the shirt on his Instagram, adding that after Questlove showed his t-shirt, someone nearby said that “Kanye cares about record sales.” The shirt is a response to this past week’s whirlwind of news stemming from Kanye West’s tweets....

After the rest of the hip-hop world threw in its two cents on Kanye West’s mysterious and yet-to-be-explained adoration for Donald Trump, social media’s favorite cutup 50 Cent had to get in on this one. But this time, West Coast rap icon Snoop Dogg, who previously shared sentiments on the matter, took Fifty’s trolling DonYe bromance magazine cover as another opportunity to share much choosier words for the Chicago emcee. 50 Cent posted a meme to his Instagram featuring a Photoshopped Vogue magazine cover with Yeezy. The original cover is a romantic picture from Kanye and Kim Kardashian’s 2014 shoot...

Read President Trump's comments about Candace Owens and Kanye West, two prominent black celebrities who have endorsed him. "Kanye looks and he sees black unemployment at the lowest it's been in the history of our country, OK? He sees Hispanic unemployment at the lowest it's been in the history of our country. He sees, by the way, female unemployment -- women unemployment the lowest it's been in now almost 19 years. He sees that stuff and he's smart. And he says you know what, Trump is doing a much better job than the Democrats did," Trump said about West. On...

Kim Kardashian is reportedly so worried about her husband Kanye West that she has decided to stage an intervention for him with the help of her mother, Kris Jenner. According to an April 27 report by Radar Online, Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner have been begging Kanye West to seek professional help after his latest round of bizarre behavior. Sources reveal that the Kardashian family has been trying to convince Kanye to get help, but so far he has been reluctant. An insider goes on to say that Kanye West is a “loose cannon” at the moment, and Kim Kardashian...

Kanye West has been tweeting non-stop and proclaiming his love for Donald Trump. Now, it is being revealed he has a big request for the President — and it involves his youngest daughter Chicago. "Kanye’s infatuated with Trump and is considering asking POTUS to be Chicago’s godfather," a source told In Touch exclusively. "He loves, respects, and admires Trump and feels a man of his prestige and power would be a perfect influence in children’s lives." However, his wife Kim Kardashian is completely opposed to the idea. "She despises Trump and doesn’t like what he stands for and is telling...

Bishop E.W. Jackson boldly calls for a mass exodus from the Democrat Party.

Fresh from rehab, Rep. Patrick Kennedy said yesterday he wants to be treated like an African-American from Washington if and when he gets charged for crashing his car on Capitol Hill. Denying that he was drunk and or that he asked the Capitol Police for preferential treatment, Kennedy, a Rhode Island congressman, said he's prepared "in terms of bookings, in terms of mug shots, fingerprints, whatever they might have me do." "It's what anyone else would have done to them if they were an African-American in Anacostia," Kennedy said in a shaky voice, referring to the mostly minority neighborhood in...

"Crime - I'm conservative. Prostitution - I'm liberal," says the reigning King of Comedy, Chris Rock. The libertarian-sounding riff received rounds of laughter and applause from the audience recorded for his recent HBO special, but it hits on a deeper trend whose ripples could build up to rock underlying assumptions about American politics. African-Americans are de-aligning from the Democratic Party, but Republicans have so far failed to pick them up in significant numbers. The result is a shift that could increase the influence of, and competition for, African-American votes, while swelling the rising tide of independent voters across the nation.This...

NEW YORK (NNPA) - New York's radio station WLIB-1190 AM has been loyally "serving New York's Black community" - as its logo states - for decades now. In the early '90s WLIB was lauded as a resource for "Afrocentric" programming and became known for featuring Imhotep Gary Byrd's "Global Black Experience" show. The station was in many ways a Black activist outlet. But by the end of this month, WLIB will be taking on a different hue, as it joins the launch of Progress Media's "Air America Radio," the new, predominately White, liberal talk-radio network. Air America has reportedly partnered...

I've believed for a long time that many of the leading Democratic politicians in America are racist to the core. And now we have proof. While, superficially, the Democratic Party courts the black vote with promises of favoritism and charity, there's always been something condescending about this attitude. There's always been something patronizing about it. There's always been something insulting about it. I've suspected there are essentially two motivations behind the Democrats' promotion of racial preferences – or what they call "affirmative action": It's a self-empowerment plan to keep minority votes on the new Democratic Party plantation by offering them...