Kanye West's ignorant comment on social media: "Slavery is a Choice". Backlash followed with members of the African-American calling Kanye West an uneducated idiot.
Last edited by Dark_Lord_2008 - on 03 May 2018
| Dark_Lord_2008 said: Kanye West's ignorant comment on social media: "Slavery is a Choice". Backlash followed with members of the African-American calling Kanye West an uneducated idiot. |
He was talking about mental slavery, Sherlock. One thing is damn sure the left hates free thought and going off the reservation. 😹
Aeolus451 said:
He was talking about mental slavery, Sherlock. One thing is damn sure the left hates free thought and going off the reservation. 😹 |
I have no idea why you'd want to defend a comment like that.
Aeolus451 said:
He was talking about mental slavery, Sherlock. One thing is damn sure the left hates free thought and going off the reservation. 😹 |
But it wasnt 400 years of mental slavery, it was literal slavery. If he was speaking in present tense it would make more sense.
SpokenTruth said:
That was him trying to backtrack the comment. You don't say "400 years of slavery sounds like a choice" and then mean mental slavery. If he meant mental slavery, what does 400 years have to do it with? Especially given that "400 years" is a commonly stated time span for the slave era. He directly referenced physical slavery. |
Slavery in the US ended well before 400 years. He was obviously talking about the mentality of slavery or mental slavery. He's been tweeting about thinking freely as an individual before that over and over. People are intentionally cutting the quote short and misrepresenting what he said or was trying to say.
It has as lot to do with HUD and how the government segregated the races post slavery. There is not enough time to get into that. Secondly it has to do with fear and how it can be used to obtain and sustain power. Our political system is based on the idea of the fear of the other. I wanted to say that so badly but people don't like it when you point out their fears.
LuccaCardoso1 said:
That's what I meant with the last paragraph. I'm not calling people racist because they're American. Of course, there are racist Americans out there (see neonazi groups), but what I'm calling racist is the American culture. I'm not blaming people from the US, I'm just asking them to reflect about the subject. |
Eh?
What is "American Culture"?
Seriously, it's a melting pot of various cultures. This just reeks of absolute sophistry. Ah...17. Well stay in school.
Certain groups have stuck together in the past for survival and never really grew out of it. There was no welfare state to survive on. It’s not racist, not anymore anyway. Chinatown, black neighborhoods, little Italy. The story is different for all of them but essentially the same. Language barriers, a sense of familiarity and security.
When people came to America in droves like the Italians through Ellis island, they were shunned and they grouped together to survive. They would learn english and assimilate into the culture. They raised their children as Americans and by that they had a much easier chance to escape that bubble of familiarity. Some choose not to leave the bubble and that’s fine, there is nothing wrong with it. To call it racist is naive in my opinion, it’s just culture.
It’s different now though. Segregation is being taught in Academia as a way to peace. Intersectionality, white privilege, etc. This is being drilled into the minds of grade school students. Kids who aren’t old enough to even contemplate the severity of racism. “Unconscious bias” LOL it’s unprovable, ignorant and racist. You’re right in a sense but not with the “communities”. If there was a mass influx of Brazilians to the US then a few “little Brazils” would pop up naturally.
SpokenTruth said:
1). I know this but that's not the point. I already told you that "400 years" is a commonly used time frame to reference the slave trade. So why would just randomly use the same exact "400 years of slavery" phrase if he was only referring to "mental slavery"? 2). I'll post his words for you because you sound you haven't actually heard/read them yet. “When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sounds like a choice. You was there for 400 years and it’s all of y’all. It’s like we’re mentally in prison. I like the word prison because slavery goes too direct to the idea of blacks. Slavery is to blacks as the Holocaust is to Jews. Prison is something that unites as one race, blacks and whites, that we’re the human race.” http://www.tmz.com/2018/05/01/kanye-west-tmz-live-slavery-trump/ He was directly speaking about physical slavery at that point. So, no...we are not misrepresenting what he was trying to say. But you are. |
First of all, slavery existed long before 400 years ago. People were not slaves in the US for 400 years. He was saying they were mental slaves or in a mental prison for 400 years. SJWs like normal are getting triggered and misrepresenting anyone who they oppose.
He elaborated more on his statement. He was talking about mental slavery. Some people just have trouble understanding words.
Kanye West has no real talent in comparison to the great 1990s rappers: Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Easy E, Dr Dre, etc. Kanye West is a Trump supporter, his views have been criticised by African-American in Hollywood, NBA/NFL, etc. Tupac, Biggie Smalls and Easy E were political activists using rap music to make positive changes. Kanye West represents the self-obsessed culture of self and wealth, he does not care about anyone else but Kanye West.
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