Tokenism & Temperature Checks: Thoughts on Kanye West
Nov 4 · 8 min read

(Writer’s note: I wanted to leave this alone but it crossed off all of my boxes as a Black-Christian-hip hop listening-and-saved-after-25 individual plus I do essayist work for a living. Some of what I was seeing in response to Kanye West and the release of Jesus Is King struck such a chord that I wanted to compile all of my thoughts into one space. This seems common sense to say but I am only one…

