On Tuesday during an interview on TMZ, West blew that theory out the water – permanently and forever – when he told those at the celebrity gossip newsroom that Black folks chose to be enslaved.
West has bulked up a little and is carrying around more weight than we’re used to seeing on him, so maybe he was thinking that if he were taking those bullwhip lashes under the blazing Southern sun that he would have pulled a Nat Turner, who led a slave rebellion in 1831.
Not likely.
West went on to say that he “just loves Trump; that’s my boy,” and he criticized other rappers such as Snoop Dogg who he says loved the current president before he was elected but now loathe him for, oh, I don’t know, perhaps suggesting that white supremacists rallying in August 2017 in Charlottesville, Va., were no worse than the people who protested their hate speech.
The “genius” has been on a roll lately. Last week he embraced Candace Owens’ “free” thinking. For those unfamiliar with Owens, she’s the young, cute African American who conservatives have fallen in love with because she thinks that Black Lives Matter is a hate group and has said that Donald Trump represents the best opportunity for Blacks to “get off the Democratic plantation.”
There have been some high hurdles to clear in the past months in terms of people of influence saying asinine and ignorant things. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos regaled us last year with her lack of understanding of basic American history when she said, “HBCUs are the pioneers in school choice.” She ignored the fact that most mainstream colleges and universities wouldn’t admit them.
Ben Carson, another Black man, dropped jaws the day he was introduced as secretary of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The renowned surgeon showed his intellect when he described slaves as “immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships who worked even longer, even harder for less” and shared a hope that one day they’d be as prosperous as the plantation owners who worked them to death.
Who knows where all this is coming from? Maybe West is trying to reignite his music career. After all, for the better part of the last few years he’s basically been Kim Kardashian’s husband and nothing more.
What is becoming clear, however, is that this man is certainly no genius.
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