Michael Harriot: The 7 kinds of Kanyes

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While there's nothing inherently wrong with conservatism, self-reliance or accountability, Ye is 1 of many high-profile Black bootstrappers who affirm the precepts of white supremacy by publicly berating Black people.

Wypipo ain't got the answers, Sway

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The 7 kinds of Kanyes
OPINION: Long before the rapping shoe salesman began making headlines, there were negro know-it-alls who made a name for themselves by berating Black people in order to affirm the principles of white...
11:21 AM · Oct 13, 2022

https://thegrio.com/2022/10/13/the-7-kinds-of-kanyes/


“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs—partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

— Booker T. Washington


Aside from the n-word, calling me the “real racist” and suggesting that I return to Africa, this quote from Booker T. Washington is a mainstay in my email inbox. Apparently “race-baiters” like myself make a hefty profit by either playing the “race card” or “the victim.” In the minds of these Caucasian race experts, I ride around in a chauffeured limousine all day concocting ways to blame everything on nonexistent white supremacy. Although my bank account does not reflect this conjecture, there is one other problem with this theory:

White people believe this stuff.

The peer-reviewed research on racial inequalities in education, criminal justice and economics does not matter. The consensus from Black scholars, experts and activists on the ground is inconsequential. White people in America are the constituency most unqualified to analyze racial issues critically. Yet, they truly believe that white supremacy is just a collective fever dream held by most Black people. Instead of using data, facts and science to prove that they are correct, they mostly rely on another “class of colored people” that Washington failed to mention.

When “the Great Accommodator” stood in front of white people and insisted that “the wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly,” he was not unique. Long before Washington condemned his Black contemporaries for their brazen outspokenness against racial terrorism, legal subjugation and inequality, Black trailblazers had charted a path in a business more lucrative than race-baiting and identity politics combined:

Telling white people what’s wrong with Black people.

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1. Fuck Michael Harriot.

I'll always remember him for this terrible fucking thread:

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Spoiler alert: Corn Pop was real, while Michael Harriot came off as a pompous fool. People don't need to cite that disreputable man's work to know that Kanye's a jackass.

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2. Here is another example

Here is another instance of him stretching the truth like a GOP jude to suit his goals.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/02/21/1920802/-How-Many-Lies-Is-It-OK-to-Tell-When-Trying-to-Make-the-Gay-Candidate-out-to-Be-a-Racist
The powers that be prefer everything is framed as affinity groups other than class or wealth.