A Moment From Black America About Kanye West....

[tulipsandroses]

75. I am glad you are doing well

Yes, I can not only bear witness to that professionally, but personally. I've watched family members go through manic phases followed by debilitating depression that put them right back in the hospital.
My family members with BPD - the Depression is the worst. Its funny how the media portrays people with Bipolar - Because quite often- The majority of time is spent in the Depressed Phase. That to me is the most devastating. From a personal standpoint. Its crippling and debilitating. People can't work, they can't go to school, marriages are destroyed, parents don't play with kids,. Meds take longer to stabilize in this phase. The mania meds tend to work faster to break mania. That crippling depression takes a lot longer to break.

Again - I don't know who in his circle is able to get to him. Or is brave enough, loves him enough to perhaps have him involuntarily admitted again and have court ordered treatment. I've had to do that for my loved ones. While some of us are laughing. This is deadly serious. BPD - has the highest rate of suicide. And I had one family member indeed, attempt suicide this year. Thankfully her attempt was unsuccessful.

And so, while Kanye's antics anger me. I still have compassion for what is happening to him. And even moreso given that he is being exploited in so many ways, Not only by Trump. But the companies that are still depending on him to make money for them.

For the older folks that had no idea who he is, they are making all kinds of jokes about him without understanding. his place in hip hop and pop culture.

I was reading recently that his album debut #1 as usual on Billboard, then took a nosedive its 2nd and 3rd week- Do we think record company execs want to make sure they recoup their money they put up? I read somewhere that the money made already does not cover what was spent on the artists he sampled. - I don't know anything about the music business but maybe they might want him out there to gain " new MAGA fans"
Its really quite a sad spectacle all around.