kanye west
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Trump Just Thanked Kanye for Doubling His Poll Numbers; Here’s Why This Has Become Dangerous
To many, Kanye West is merely an egomaniacal rapper. To others, he’s a powerful black force with T’Challa-like abilities to rally those who worship at the altar of Yeezus. I believe the former, but it sounds like President Donald Trump believes the latter, since he just thanked “Make America great again” Ye for doubling his…
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Judge of Characters: We’re Not Laughing at Slavery, We’re Laughing at Kanye
Kanye West’s name has been on most of our lips throughout the last week as he slides from digital rant to in-person rant and back again. Even when you want nothing more than to avoid all that Kanye’s been spewing, it’s tough to do. Perhaps his most damaging statement is simplifying 400 years of slavery…
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Donald Trump Apparently Thinks Putting Kanye West in a Room With Colin Kaepernick Can Solve Racism
The Donald Trump adviser who solved Chicago’s violence problem in early 2017 by speaking to some of the city’s “top gang thugs” has received approval from the White House to invite Kanye West, Colin Kaepernick, Jim Brown and Mike Tyson to a summit to discuss race in America. What could go wrong? According to HuffPost,…
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‘No One Else Was Gonna Speak Up’: TMZ’s Van Lathan Emerges as an Unexpected Hero
Is Kanye West to be Denounced, Scorned or Pitied? NABJ President Invited to Next ‘Nerd Prom’ Sports Media Get ‘B’ on Race Hiring; ‘F’ on Gender Ruling: Temptations’ Edwards Died of Meningitis 3 U.S. Blacks, 2 Latinos Among Next Nieman Class Phone Companies Still Gouging Inmates, Families Native Photographers Go Beyond Stereotypes San Diego Paper…
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Here’s a List of Books on Slavery That Kanye Should Read
Kanye West doesn’t care about books. If he hadn’t said as much in a 2009 Reuters interview, where he labeled himself a “proud nonreader of books,” we’d still know about his breathless commitment to ignorance just by listening to his latest rants blaming black people for crime, the Democratic Party and—most disgusting of all—slavery: At…
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Detroit Music Station ‘Mutes’ Kanye West but Doesn’t Know if It’ll Mute Chris Brown and R. Kelly. SMH
Ever since T.I. rapped “you had a bad idea and you makin’ it worse” on his and Kanye’s “Ye vs. the People,” I’ve found ways to apply that statement to so many facets of life. It was so apt and simple and profound that it really encapsulates everything going on in the world of Kanye…
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White America Is ‘Publicly Lynching’ Black Men … but Not Kanye, Cosby or R. Kelly
The hullabaloo about Kanye West’s nonsensical rants, the Bill Cosby conviction and the movement to mute R. Kelly has exposed a clear line of demarcation with two opposing sides. The first side needs no introduction. Anyone reading this has probably seen at least a few of the extensive catalog of think pieces about why Kanye…
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Kanye, Words Matter!
On Wednesday morning I appeared on CNN with John Berman and Poppy Harlow to discuss Kanye West’s comments about how slavery was a “choice” for black people. My take is that Kanye’s remarks were wholly irresponsible, lacked good judgment and came from an uneducated stance. With his broad reach and appeal, Kanye should be more…
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Darrell Scott and Trump’s White House Want to Talk About Race; This Is a Horrible Idea
On the heels of Kanye West’s full “Make America great again” rants, one of Donald Trump’s most prominent blacks and the conkiest-conk-to-ever-conk, Cleveland pastor Darrell Scott, has been kicking around the idea of having multiple summits on race that would include athletes and artists; and the White House is actually considering this. According to Politico,…
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Kanye West and Charlamagne Open Up Space to Talk About Black Men and Mental Health
It is impolite—unethical, even—to armchair-diagnose anyone in the public eye with having a mental illness, mostly because of the stigma attached to being labeled “crazy.” (It has nothing to do with privacy laws, I’m sure.) But even if Kanye West does not have an official label he wants to share publicly, he is certainly acting…