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Well worth the readfor those still engaged in learning about racial discussions, and if you havent followed that hashtag you are missing out. Im dying.
Maybe you were a big fan of Kanyes music and now you feel personally let down by how hard hes trying to be the absolute worst.
Maybe you are a decent human who recognizes that Trump and his administration are hateful trashmonsters working diligently to make marginalized populations (and like, half of the global population) more unsafe and you are concerned to see a high profile music idol sing his praises to the delight of countless racist trolls.
Maybe you have read a book or two in your life or have a shred of empathy or are not completely drowning in anti-blackness - or due to being a human being walking around in the world you able to guess that 99.9% of humans do not like being dragged across the world in chains, bought and sold, tortured their entire lives, forced to work for free, starved, raped, and murdered - and have realized that black people were most likely not slaves by choice.
https://medium.com/IjeomaOluo/how-non-black-people-can-talk-about-kanye-while-staying-in-their-lane-cb34b05fc84e
Bok_Tukalo
(4,322 posts)Any way I damn well choose.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,772 posts)Response to Bok_Tukalo (Reply #1)
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bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Last edited Wed May 2, 2018, 05:00 PM - Edit history (1)
Or worse, learn from others!
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)See below, supposedly President Obama thinks he is a jackass.
Conformity sucks some times.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)That shit still goes on. I know many would LOVE to make a false equivalence about white people, though. Some people argue that shit all day long.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)A pity you don't read them.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)It's both your depth of context and breadth of nuance that first catches the eye.
While others may lazily meter out simply a shallow bumper-sticker to avoid actual thought, you provide us with a largesse of all the wit and wisdom you posses.
Bok_Tukalo
(4,322 posts)<OPE>
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Brevity is often best combined with clarity and accuracy.
Bok_Tukalo
(4,322 posts)<POE>
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)textbook example on this thread
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Useful.
ismnotwasm
(41,919 posts)You all dont have to learn or even want to learn
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)You got me with the headline. I literally had a little chuckle.
kcr
(15,300 posts)I've never seen a working link to Medium in the wild.
Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)Go to https://goo.gl/
Enter the full medium link (as you have above)
Result: https://goo.gl/nD8HF5
kcr
(15,300 posts)Medium's design and business model annoy me a little bit. You'd think they'd want to make it easy to link to.
tblue37
(64,979 posts)Standard Medium link:
https://medium.com/@IjeomaOluo/how-non-black-people-can-talk-about-kanye-while-staying-in-their-lane-cb34b05fc84e
Same link with @ sign removed (direct link to desired article):
https://medium.com/IjeomaOluo/how-non-black-people-can-talk-about-kanye-while-staying-in-their-lane-cb34b05fc84e
ismnotwasm
(41,919 posts)dawg
(10,610 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,831 posts)Every group has them. I have run across Jews who blather on about how they would have never been taken to a death camp because they would have fought back, and the Jews were just sheep. These types of comments are ahistorical and just ignorant, just like West's.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)For tRump supporters period. I wouldn't need to talk to any tRump supporter, or as I call them, traitors.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)rollin74
(1,952 posts)nuf said
Sailor65x1
(554 posts)I won't tell another man what he can express or to whom, and won't suffer to be "Laned" by one. Neither should anyone else tolerate such. Kanye has always been an idiot and associated with other idiots. If I recall correctly, President Obama thought so also. And I'm fairly certain HE would not be telling anyone who can talk about it and who can't. That sounds more like the current occupant to me; and that's a growing parallel.
These kinds of articles remind me of a line from a book; "Now will scholarship's imbeciles have their day..."
Only it's been a lot of days. So many days....
ismnotwasm
(41,919 posts)From the article;
If you are concerned by what Kanye is saying, Im going to assume that it is at least in part because you are concerned with the hate, bigotry, and oppression of the Trump administration that Kanyes supporting, or the massive amount of anti-blackness that Kanye is spouting when he claims that black people were slaves by choice. If either of these are true, then you should also be concerned about the power structure of systems of race and the anti-blackness that permeates our society and enables Trump and infects Kanye. This means, that even when you are discussing how universally shitty Kanye is being, you are also discussing a black man as a non-black person, and the way you do so can contribute to anti-blackness in a way that you may not intend, but will still be very responsible for.
There are people who will love to see you tear down Kanye, not because what hes saying is absolute trash, but because hes a black man. There are plenty of people who will love your comments about Kanye, not because they address Kanyes absolute dedication to selfishness and ignorance, but because they feel the same way about all black people.
misanthrope
(7,405 posts)One look at his in-laws confirms that.