The Issue of Kanye

O.K. time to weigh in on the Kanye issue. We all know that Kanye is a Trump supporter and have since at least the time of Trump’s candidacy announcement. Kanye’s support isn’t something new anymore. We all know that he’s a free thinker. Free thinking is precisely what he’s encouraging others to develop. Kanye has been consuming words from thinkers like Thomas Sowell and Jordan B. Peterson, and I believe subsequently is talking about individualism. About separating one's self from group think. He encourages self development through self-education, and speaks of freeing the mind from preconstructed notions of victimhood.

““He chooses a different term from slavery to clarify and unite peoples by using the word imprisonment to emphasisze the notion that this is a human condition, not just a racial one.””

He makes this point in his TMZ interview, with his example of slavery. By saying it’s something that’s been going on for 400 years. Legal slavery was abolished 153 years ago in America. Since then blacks struggled through systemic racism for a while, under such institutions as Jim crow laws, which were also done away with 50 years ago. But blacks were not legally slaves after the ratification of the 13th Amendment to U.S. Constitution. So what is he talking about when he says 400 years? Depsite the abolition of legalized slavery in the U.S., slavery can be said to have taken on another form. He’s talking about how slavery can also be of the mind. He chooses a different term from slavery to clarify and unite peoples by using the word imprisonment to emphasisze the notion that this is a human condition, not just a racial one. Kanye knows that the enemy blacks are fighting in the simple struggle for survival is common to us all.

The enemy of the black man isn’t white people, I label the American ideological left as the enemy of all Americans who believe in freedom and individualism which includes the black man. The enemy are those who work to convince us that the country is designed to impede minority prosperity, and to drown our youth’s minds in messages of victimhood. Blacks, women, any other minority group they can label are all victims. Homo, Asian, it doesn’t matter, as long as you’re not an American white male, you’re a victim. This victim mentality is detrimental to us all as it only creates minds who live in constant strife. It encourages people to believe they can’t get ahead in life because a nebulous outside force is holding them back. That is mental slavery.

““Why dream if one can’t pierce gale force winds of oppression every moment of every waking day?””

Think about it. If you’re a black male growing up in an inner city, you’re educated in liberal public schools where you’re taught what to think about the world, rather than how to think critically for yourself. You’re socially bombarded with the message that as a black man you have a built-in impediment to success by dent of the melanin in your skin. You’re taught that the only way you can get ahead in life is to depend a government provided education, or perhaps become some sort of celebrity, sports, music…etc. But you can never become a wealth generator as a black man. Only a consumer of the small slice left behind by the rich, who all bear no weights as heavy as melanin. You’re taught that as a black man your enemy is the very law under which we should all seek protection, and those who risk their lives to enforce it. Isn’t that just a depressing way of seeing life? No agency over one’s self. No ability to climb, scratch, crawl if one has to toward one’s dreams. Dodging the law out of fear for one’s life. That is mental slavery.

I found freedom through educating myself rather than rely others. I find it very freeing to believe that my choices and consequences are my own, no matter the conditions into which I was born. I find it freeing to believe that despite challenges, hard work and the proper tools can move me forward in life. Why dream if one can’t pierce gale force winds of oppression every moment of every waking day? Isn’t it more likely that one will find success in life if one’s mind isn’t focused on oppression? Isn’t it more likely that if one is focused in beating the odds the odds become less of a hurtle? People get so caught up focusing on the past, rather than looking forward. This is what Kanye wants us to hear in his message. We can move forward from here instead of dwelling on issues that are really outdated. We as Americans need to look at the real issues instead of dividing ourselves into groups just to build coalitions. We are already standing on common ground in that we are all Americans.

I say Kanye is a man with great opportunity, as his voice is backed by his celebrity. I’m glad that he has chosen to use it in expressing his individuality. I hope that he continues to fight through the storm of social and professional derision, a I feel he’s only getting started on making the difference he’s equipped for. More and more young Americans are coming to realize that the “Democrat plantation” is open to all colors. More and more are walking away from said plantation towards individuality. More and more people are looking at the way Kanye is being treated and are realizing that the social orthodoxy is suppressing free thought. 

Until next time, dear reader....